-Drive: Kingmax PQ3480 512GB (72% health left and 0 Media Integrity Errors)

So I was recently playing a decently light game that requires not so much writes for the ssd then out of nowhere a YSOD(Yellow Screen of Death) flashed my screen for a sec then my laptop rebooted.
After that,it showed "No boot device found" as I remembered, it also disappeared in the UEFI/BIOS .I have to re-seat / do a cold boot in order for it to show up again tho I cant log in Window at that moment (I can sometime access the lock screen until a few secs later , a BSOD with the error code WHEA... happened . Same goes with Safe mode).
However,I can still access the drive through a rescue usb(WinPE boot environment) and do light tasks on it.But the moment I start doing some loads on it like testing its speed using Victoria , it disappeared in the eyes of WinPE.It finds it again after a restart.
I thought it might be something with the heat so I directly blowed my fan into it and it was able to boot into Safe mode and even Window,I even successfully ran a chkdsk and it found no problems.(Note that the ssd ran perfectly fine even under loads before the incident)
Sadly my laptop didnt have a built-in heatsink for the ssd and Im running on a budget rn so I cant buy a new ssd.I have backed up my files to be prepared for the worst.

(the ssd still cant log into Window without a direct fan blowing at its face,I also noticed that the ssd is quite hot after some (2) failed boots and WinRE. The power chip might be leaking? idk)

Im a student and I really need this ssd.Hope someone out there could help me with this:P

I’ve got a tool set with 57 different bits, but none works on this screw, and I’m not even sure which bit I would need because the screw isn’t identified.

⟐ Commented June 16, 2025 at 19:28 MST

I have a sandisk cruzer glide and there is no power going to the board when it's plugged in. Can someone help me?

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Fash, my drives are new, but now when I try to use them, it doesn't open and doesn't save information and doesn't read the previous ones, please help me?

⟐ Marked as duplicate May 03, 2024 at 6:49 MST

No matter what I tried, never got past that again, so I had to pull out my old SSD and swap it in, boots right up, memory is all working, original apple SSD is all good. I order OWC's SSD enclosure, get it today, plug the SSD in, nothing shows up. 30 min plugged in, jostling it around, trying things, nothing changes. Doesn't show up in Disk Utility at all, lights are all powered on the SSD and the enclosure, its plugged directly into the back of the mac. I notice it's getting really hot, so I unplug it.

Literally nothing has changed, I can't find any damage or signs of failed components visually, what am I missing? Is it worth trying to have someone recover? I had all my data, and even bootcamp installed on this SSD. I look up this SSD online and turns out this seems to be a common issue, with no solution so far I can find.

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⟐ Commented November 04, 2023 at 23:43 MST

Any help?

⟐ Answered August 19, 2023 at 22:37 MST

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⟐ Commented August 18, 2023 at 20:00 MST

It looks like this.

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How much life is this SSD likely have as a real world estimate, or am I better off dumping it now and moving onto a 256GB class SSD? As far as the security of my CD rips I do have a primary SSD with WAV and FLAC files on it, so if this does drop dead they exist elsewhere.

However it was at 100% 7 days ago so the performance hit is new.

I’m also wondering what the SM841N official TBW rating is - hopefully being a drive with 20.60TB of data isn’t a concern on it’s own.

I replaced the enclosure due to the poor quality of the previous enclosure I tried and it did fix the performance hit (and TRIM message) but the 82% health wear. See the above image:

I suspect this is a 75TBW drive but I can’t verify that for sure, since it’s hard to trace the retail version of the drive down to make sure.

⟐ Commented January 23, 2021 at 21:08 MST

I have a Gigabyte H110M-A motherboard that I use for a personal home server, but the adapter refuses to show up in the BIOS or Gparted. I’ve tested the card on another older system which acknowledged the card perfectly fine, and I formatted it as NTFS with no issues.

There is a red LED on the card which means it is receiving power from the PCIe slot.

Maybe the motherboard is incompatible, or there is a setting I need to change, or maybe a driver issue? I’m stuck.

Any help is appreciated, thank you!

⟐ Commented May 12, 2020 at 0:35 MST

When plugged in it goes on and off and it cancels all other devices on the docking station. The docking station needs to be rebooted again for it to recognize the other devices again eg. hard drives or other memory sticks and only when the StoreJet was physically removed.

I had no problem with the StoreJet drive on my previous laptop. It even does it when I plugged it in directly onto the Surface Pro 4.

⟐ Commented June 21, 2017 at 9:34 MST