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When SSDs fail, they can leave the entire disk unreadable. Spinning disks will usually only corrupt or deny access to a small part. This is very bad if you do n
by fegu 12y ago
When SSDs fail, they can leave the entire disk unreadable. Spinning disks will usually only corrupt or deny access to a small part. This is very bad if you do not have backups. Beware! http://www.gundersen.net/solid-state-drives-the-best-of-drives-the-worst-of-drives/ http://www.gundersen.net/solid-state-drives-the-best-of-driv...
- doxcf434 12y agoI had an SSD fail on a mac and the symptoms were that blocks would become intermittently unreadable the longer the drive was running. So when I took it to the genius bar, their tests passed initially. The logs of course showed the read failures, which is what I had to use to convince them the SSD was failing.