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Well, they could still improve. My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 yea
by jychang 12y ago
Well, they could still improve.
My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 years old.
For comparison, I've only had 2 spinning hard drives fail on me (I've owned around 25), and those were >10 years old and mostly decommissioned.
It could be a statistical fluke, and the sheer speed of SSDs means that even now, a higher failure rate is acceptable, but SSDs in general don't have the longevity of older magnetic hard drives.
- jahewson 12y agoMy Macbook's SSD lasted just six months before it failed, right before printing a boarding pass for a transatlantic flight. Afterwards it turned out Time Machine had been making corrupted backups, which wasn't fun, fortunately no user data loss, only Applications. I've learnt my lesions about SSDs: they don't give you any hints that they're about to fail, and one they do, it's game over.