Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

Hey Michael, It depends if you believe in the voodoo. In general once a SSD drive actually fails there is not much you can do as long as you don't know what the chip does exactly. If you have important data on it then in most cases the suggestion is to have a HDD as a backup device so you

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

On 03/17/2016 01:25 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I had a problem with a power supply that kept cutting out after about 40 minutes or so. I was running debian stretch reasonably OK from a PNY optima ssd on an FX 8350 cpu running on a sabertooth fx 990 2.0 board with a engt 430

ssd firmware and power cycles etc

Dear Folks, I had a problem with a power supply that kept cutting out after about 40 minutes or so. I was running debian stretch reasonably OK from a PNY optima ssd on an FX 8350 cpu running on a sabertooth fx 990 2.0 board with a engt 430 graphics card. The original psu was a Zalman zm 1250

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

On 18/03/2016 7:59 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I will stick with hard drives. Any kind of flash drive can die with little or no notice. However, that article was way back in 2013 ... there have been loads of improvements since then. Current Samsung 850 Pro units in AU have a 10 year

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

Don't get me wrong. I am using both SSD and HDD and some failed(hdd) and I know that most of the issues was due to some nasty software that makes them run in async "dancing" and then well.. they eventually fail very very hard. But if the OS can send and the HDD can decide on the right move

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

On 17 March 2016 at 20:33, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey Michael, > > It depends if you believe in the voodoo. > ​The incantation is here: forum.crucial.com/t5/tkb/articleprintpage/tkb-id/ssd@tkb/article-id/32 and there are discussions like this one as well: