lol loud clunk and smoke? this sounds like the start a steampunk mis-adventure.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:09 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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