I've got a 2011 27" iMac with a OCZ Vertex 2 SSD via Seagate Thunderbolt adapter. The SSD had 2 partitions - a OSX bootable partition (encrypted) and a Win7 partition. I use the SSD as a boot drive, but my user data and other stuff lives on the internal hard drive.
About a week ago, I came home to wake up the machine, and couldn't get past the unlock screen - got the spinning cursor, gave its few minutes, and finally forced a power off and back on. When booting back up, the SSD didn't show up as a boot drive, so I booted the internal drive instead. Then I checked disk utility, and the SSD showed NO partitions.
I hoped this was a fluke, and rebuilt another boot partition (and windows partition) - thankfully I have a good backup scheme, and this doesn't take particularly long.
Today, the exact same thing happened again - I try and wake up the computer from sleep, got spinning cursor for ~5 minutes until I forced a power off, and when I came back the SSD showed no partions. DOH!
S.M.A.R.T. status is showing as verified, though I haven't looked at any more detailed smart data yet -- I know how to access the error logs via linux, but have no experience doing this under OSX yet.
Has anyone else seen a failure like this? I had been running in this setup for a while (month? two?), so not sure what happened. Previous to that I had been using the SSD for a windows-only and never had anything like this happen.
Only thing I can think of is maybe a problem with Trim Enabled & the drive causing data loss... Unfortunately, I do use file vault for OSX, so not enabling Trim would probably kill my drive performance over time.
Anybody else hit a problem like this? Or have useful suggestions?
EDIT: Its a relatively big drive (240G), so I'm not excited about spending a bunch of $ to replace it now...
About a week ago, I came home to wake up the machine, and couldn't get past the unlock screen - got the spinning cursor, gave its few minutes, and finally forced a power off and back on. When booting back up, the SSD didn't show up as a boot drive, so I booted the internal drive instead. Then I checked disk utility, and the SSD showed NO partitions.
I hoped this was a fluke, and rebuilt another boot partition (and windows partition) - thankfully I have a good backup scheme, and this doesn't take particularly long.
Today, the exact same thing happened again - I try and wake up the computer from sleep, got spinning cursor for ~5 minutes until I forced a power off, and when I came back the SSD showed no partions. DOH!
S.M.A.R.T. status is showing as verified, though I haven't looked at any more detailed smart data yet -- I know how to access the error logs via linux, but have no experience doing this under OSX yet.
Has anyone else seen a failure like this? I had been running in this setup for a while (month? two?), so not sure what happened. Previous to that I had been using the SSD for a windows-only and never had anything like this happen.
Only thing I can think of is maybe a problem with Trim Enabled & the drive causing data loss... Unfortunately, I do use file vault for OSX, so not enabling Trim would probably kill my drive performance over time.
Anybody else hit a problem like this? Or have useful suggestions?
EDIT: Its a relatively big drive (240G), so I'm not excited about spending a bunch of $ to replace it now...
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