On 29 January 2014 20:06, Horatio Kemeny <hkemeny@...> wrote:
There seems to be an emerging trend with respect to SSD failures… that when they fail, they fail instantly. A mechanical HD would typically start causing problems and throwing out errors, giving you some time (days or weeks) to deal with it. Not so with SSD. A simple Google of “SSD failure” will pop up a concerning list of articles.
HDDs can also fail in this way. I have had a couple completely die electrically at home over the years, and have seen dozens in the workplace.
Similarly, SSDs generally warn that they are failing (they track the number of defective blocks that have been substituted and then warn in the SMART data), though, I've seen drives die instantly too.
As with any electronic data, keep backups and verify them!