SSD X25-M 80GB with only 8MEGAbytes available

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A few days ago I bought an Acer Aspire Timeline AS3810t-6775 which came with an Intel SSD X25-M 80GB. After 2 days of operation, the HD simply recognizes only 8 megabytes. In the BIOS, Serial Number field is shown BAD_CTX. I wonder if Intel has a fix for this problem. I can not claim warranty as bought in the U.S. but I am in Brazil now.

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Formating or writing over the drive is not the same as sending an ATA Secure Erase command to the drive, which is what the HDDErase tool does. By running that victoria tool, every pass it ran used up another of your 10,000 allowed MLC cell writes.

An alternative to the HDDErase is using the hdparm tool in Linux:

http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

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I have SLC drive and SMART attribute that is showing flash wear aka Endurance Remaining (232) is changed from 89 то 88 that is not critical for me. Anyway I got stable drive after all. Thanks for hdparm tip

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i have exactly same issue with x18-m 160G gen 2. things happened when I installing windows 7, i am using thinkpad x301 laptop. I doubt this is a bug with intel x18/x25-m ssd. looks this is not a occasional case.

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Intel just ignores questions about this failure/BAD_CTX meaning. I am sure they know what is happened.

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yes, I agree. I hope intel can face the problem. otherwise, more and more people will suffer.