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New 330 series drive with funny SMART results

I just bought a new Intel 330 series 60GB drive. I tried it in two different computers and it works fine, except for some unusual SMART results. For example "Power-On-Hours-Count: 894811" or "Host Writes: 101,16GB". I know the results are impossible...

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Intel ssd 520 series: IDE mode not working on dell E6420 after migration

Hi,I have cloned my older windows xp (installed under IDE mode on a kingston 64G ssd) to a new 120G Intel 520 ssd. The clone was successful. But after swap harddrive, my E6420 won't boot at all with the new intel 520 ssd. It gives the error message...

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Intel SSD Toolbox and ASMedia 1061 Chipset.

The ASMedia 1061 SATA 6Gb/s chipset is now being used by some mother board manufactures instead of the Marvell 91xx chipsets, for additional SATA 6Gb/s ports. This ASMedia chipset can also be found on add-on SATA cards.I recently started using a Z77 ...

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SSD320 failure rate at 6% so far

Everyone, We deployed 120 of the SSD320 drives with updated firmware prior to rollout beginning in November 2011. So far we've experienced 7 failures over the course of 3 months - all 7 being the "8MB size BAD_CTX serial number" problem supposedly ...

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Is 320 firmware buggy?

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/do-ssd-drives-really-fail-lot-t4035508.html http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/do-ssd-drives-really-fail-lot-t4035508.htmlBe wary of the new Intel SSD 320 series. Currently, there's a bug in the controller that can caus...

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