SSD WAS 128GB (Purchased from MWAVE), NOW SHOWS UP AS 4GB?

My Solid State Drive (OCZ OCZSSD2-1C128G 128gb 2.5 inch SATA2 solid state disk (SSD) (mlc chip)) worked fine in my new macbook laptop since oct 2008. I had snow leopard loaded in a stock form and it was flawless. June 2010 I put my laptop to sleep by closing the lid as I always do. When I opened it the next day, it would not wake from sleep. I got the [?] blinking disk question mark icon. It would not boot.

I have 4 GB physical RAM since new. Since it would not wake, my SSD shows up not as 128GB but as 4GB only. No disk utility on any computer can correctly ID this drive now. I put a new hard drive in the Mac and it booted right up. Two people say my SSD just got fried. From what? Also why does it show as 4GB (the same size as my RAM)? Is there any sense in paying someone to try to fix my SSD/recover data?

The problem with SSD is not only are they a lot more expensive per GB than the traditional hard drive, but they are also a lot more expensive than the traditional hard drive to recover from, if the data is recoverable at all. There is likely someone out there who will do it for less, but I would expect that you will be paying at least $2000 to recover data from a dead SSD drive at most reputable labs in North America.

I can honestly say that we haven't actually recovered any SSD drives here, as we haven't had any clients who are willing to pay more than the cost for the matching parts drive we'll need to source, let alone for the recovery.

Good luck,
Luke

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Luke
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Ditto. The cost of recovery for ssd is high because of parts, tooling, know how...

And the SSD wave is slowly starting...

Like said above.. If you had very important information on there you need to pay up or bin it.

No generic DIY solutions are available yet-- so you will really need to join the OCZ forum and call them up (not very great after sales support from my experience)

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We've done a few SSD recoveries, but not that many due to the cost.

An average recovery is around £1500 due to the huge amount of time required to reassemble the buggers!!

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Which is pretty darn close to my $2000USD mentioned above.

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Luke
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big job to do ssd drives are crap

as you got to remove all the NAND-based flash memory

and read them all in and then rebuild the file system

Guys contact with me, data recovery price for SSD drives will be less (Eastern Europe) for regular partners.
If you will be able read all chips themself, job could be done remote (need flash-extractor from SC for work) or we can upload dumps.

Sorry for offtopic

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Iv'e done 2 and they are really really time consuming and VERY expensive (ie I endorse what is being said here).
However they are the future and the price will come down. If the data isn't critical it may pay to wait or take up Dr Kiev.

i thought due to no moving parts ssd drives were almost impervious to data loss, i guess i was incorrect. so data storage will always be a risky business no matter if its a hard drive or ssd? the world we live in, nothing is safe lol.

I learned the hard way too, however I didn't have anything important on the flash drive. To my knowledge, I think of SSDs and any other NAND based device is like a battery. It slowly deteriorates, then it just goes out.

On a side note, make sure you always have at least 3x different backups of your data. You never know when disaster is going to strike.

In my opinion SSD drives are still a work in progress. I would wait a few more generations when the memory IC's can hold enough data so multiple memory ic's are not required to hold a reasonable amount of data and a single ic can hold around 100GB of data or more. This way you will not need to reassemble the data across multiple ic's. This technology of improving memory capacity is in the works, but it is currently unavailalbe. For now, I would not store any important data on any SSD drive. I recommend just using the SSD drive to hold the operating system and applications only and use a regular hard drive to store the data. Just my two cents.

Alan