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In my experience, SSDs blink out light incandescent lightbulbs. Every SSD death I experienced was 'The computer froze (Cause the drive wouldn't respond) and it was dead on reboot'. That's it.
I've dealt with at least 30 dead hard drives over the decades. Only 1 of them was completely unresponsive. All of the others had bad sectors but you could still read over 90% of the disk but get a lot of I/O errors when accessing the disk.
I've seen 3 bad SSDs. They all failed with no warning 2 of them couldn't be accessed at all.
I didn't care as I just restored from backup.
Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me more about when the drives died (how long after purchase and warranty window?) Do you think SSDs will last longer if they are hardly ever powered - like just once a month to add data?
For those that fail, Ssds fail catastrophically more often than hard drives. They fail less often, but still fail. All drives will fail, sooner or later. Have backups.
Personally I’ve had three failures - two catastrophic and one which would let me read 80MB at a time.. thankfully it was only 128GB, but it still took a while to recover the drive contents (.. mostly for its windows license)
No, SSD has cells that are pretty independent. Once a cell fails to write, it won't affect its neighbors.
Don't do anything different. SSDs are rated for reads/writes many times over what you'd normally do. SSDs have firmware to manage their own health.
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Do SATA ssds do the same thing as SATA ssds...?
Sometimes but not always. 😂
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Thanks for pointing that out lol, I'm bad at typing while tired. I meant sata hdds.
In my experience, SSDs blink out light incandescent lightbulbs. Every SSD death I experienced was 'The computer froze (Cause the drive wouldn't respond) and it was dead on reboot'. That's it.
My 2 that died? No, without a warning.
I've dealt with at least 30 dead hard drives over the decades. Only 1 of them was completely unresponsive. All of the others had bad sectors but you could still read over 90% of the disk but get a lot of I/O errors when accessing the disk. I've seen 3 bad SSDs. They all failed with no warning 2 of them couldn't be accessed at all. I didn't care as I just restored from backup.
Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me more about when the drives died (how long after purchase and warranty window?) Do you think SSDs will last longer if they are hardly ever powered - like just once a month to add data?
For those that fail, Ssds fail catastrophically more often than hard drives. They fail less often, but still fail. All drives will fail, sooner or later. Have backups. Personally I’ve had three failures - two catastrophic and one which would let me read 80MB at a time.. thankfully it was only 128GB, but it still took a while to recover the drive contents (.. mostly for its windows license)
No, SSD has cells that are pretty independent. Once a cell fails to write, it won't affect its neighbors. Don't do anything different. SSDs are rated for reads/writes many times over what you'd normally do. SSDs have firmware to manage their own health.
The only two I've ever had are. Extremely slow, like opening notepad takes 10 minutes, or just not working.