My backups are at 1 infinite loops drive aka google drive, for stuff that I literally can't replace I keep their, and on a nice USB drive WD passport I got. a few years ago. What causes SSD to just die? is that a limitation of of read/writes as compared to hours of use (SATA)?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:19 PM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:50:52PM -0600, Gillian Densmore wrote: > > I was given a PNY brand SSD for a present about march this year. this > last > > Thursday. the damn thing stopped working. As in on strike, took a dump > on the > > bed. And Nothing I have done will get the F'n thing back to life. > > > > Symptoms are that it doesn't show up in BIOS, Windows thinks it's a > unformated > > drive, booting into Ubuntu to try to get the fucking to to just god damn > work > > gives a million errors about nodes, and F'sync. > > And my hunch is the POS has died. > > Questions! Does thatis happen to SSD's? they'll just stop working, > because, > > reasons? Family naturally wants do stuff with a warante not sure it's > worth it > > if the fucker just died. > > I have tried unplugging cables, wiggling wobling and just about > everything to > > get it back to life. > > On the off chance the bastard can be revived: is their software out > their to > > force the god damn thing to work? windows > > https://ibb.co/TH2rvc0 <---this is what the fucking thing does now > > I have had three SSDs die on me, the last one 2018, just prior to it's > 3 year warranty running out. I managed to get a replacement for that > by sending the original back to Taiwan. But had to buy a replacement > anyway (newer NVMe technology, so quite a performance bump), as I > couldn't wait for them to post back the replacement, and that > replacement is still going strong. > > I have also had multiple spinning rust disks die on me over the years, > sometimes with a loud clunk and a wisp of smoke. But nothing in the > last decade or so, so maybe HDD has become super reliable. > > In each an every case, I buy a new disk, restore from backups and > continue trucking. You do do backups don't you? > > I have sometimes recovered failing HDDs by doing something along the > lines of (on Linux) > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda > > where sda is the name of you hard disk. This works by forcing the disk > to use some spare blocks, mapping the old bad blocks to the fresh ones. > > Somewhat less successful for SSDs, though, as I suspect the > filesystems automatically do that now under the guise of "wear levelling" > > Can't comment what you'd do with Windows - probably just download a live > Linux distro, and use Linux files system tools is what I'd do. > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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