Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:38 am
Chrispy_ wrote:Sounds dead.
I've had a more-than-50% failure rate with sandforce drives from three different vendors ordered in the last two months (5/9), they've been dead on arrival. I wonder if something is up with Sandforce at the moment?
I would say that your case is an outlier. I've had no problems with sandforce drives from OCZ and Corsair. And judging by recent newegg reviews on sandforce drives, many other people haven't had problems either.
To the OP: Stupid questions: try a different SATA power plug? Make sure its in an Intel SATA port? If its just not being recognized and it sounds like you've tried all viable solutions, you may need to just RMA it. Faulty drives from the get-go are rare from any vendor, but it does happen. If you RMA and the next drive doesn't work, I can pretty much guarantee that the problem is somewhere else...probably the motherboard then.
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