Fired up my gaming PC after 2 months hiatus for a game day, surprised that the entire disk where my games were stored was gone. Went to bio, saw that the drive was attempting to intermittently connect (and fail). Thought it’s a connection problem, replaced the SATA cable, same thing. Took the drive out and plug it onto an USB SATA reader, could not get it to read. I only recently (Nov 2022) upgraded to this SSD (from older HDD). So I searched online and it turns out it was a very common problem with the recent WD Blue SA510s. Will not be posting review links for HN but they are straightforwardly found on Amazon and WD website itself, please check them out (and might need to skip the older, very good ratings). If you’re looking for a cheap SSD drive, be warned! I use steam, store my own mod scripts on github, so didn’t really lose anything except a good game day, and need to replace the drive. I can’t imagine how painful it is to lose it with a bunch of work on it.
Story Published at: March 25, 2023 at 07:35PM
Story Published at: March 25, 2023 at 07:35PM