Hardware & Technical Dumping SSHD's

Oh dear - after a completely miserable morning "fixing" my friends laptops with utterly bizarre SSHD issues where the drive would disappear, reappear, become read-only and even then only in IDE mode without DMA - urgh! On three machines at the same time! She has no idea what happened, no unusual machine behaviour until today, and nothing installed or updated within the last week.

Not having any spare SSHD's lying around, I ended up going back home, pulling my hot SSD spares and just installing those out of sheer frustration, fresh installs and data recovery from the plethora of USB sticks she keeps her work on. Fun times!

Having finished all that - I remember I've got a couple of SSHD fitted Haswell boxes I needed for something years ago that haven't really been touched since. Sure enough - I fire them up and the SSHD's have the exact same problem.

GF's PS4 original which also has a SSHD upgrade is perfectly fine however.

Anyway - has anyone else experienced this?

I'm pulling the whole lot out and replacing with SSD just in case.
 
firmware bug

Oh - I've no doubt you are 100% correct - but these things are pretty ancient, and have never had a firmware update made available since SM11.

Doesn't matter though - already ordered 10 replacement SSD's and my mate's coming round later and we are taking them round the back of the shed for some urm, ballistic maintenance :D

Oh - most interestingly - plugging them into an ancient Atom board with no CMOS battery and thus no set system date - the "faulty" drives appear to work perfectly normally until reboot. I can't think of any significance of 9/30/2018 mushed to either decimal or hex - but that is very weird!
 
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No!
Obviously you have been condemmed to PC hell! You have been a naughty boy and probably dabbled in Linux and OSX as well! Now you will pay the price for your sins, and we should have no mercy on you. Do not dabble and be straight ( straight in computing, that is :)).
:)
Cheers Cmdr's
 
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