Re:Welcome to how SSDs fail. (Score 1)

Same here. Had a Vertex 2 croak on me with no warning, it fell into some internal maintenance mode and that was it. The data was still there, of course, but the disk was just refusing to do anything at all. After my experience with the customer support at OCZ where they told me they did't even have the software tools to get the disk out of maintenance mode and all they had from the vendor of the controller was an utility that simply did a factory-reset on the drive, I had enough. Don't know what would be worse, them lying to me or them really being unable to debug their own damned hardware. Either way, I have a Samsung ever since and had no further problems.