On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I
> remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk.
>
> Last week the same thing happened on the second notebook.
>
> The only warning was that a few days earlier the firmware forgot what
> to boot. I easily fixed that by telling it again. This could easily
> have been a CMOS battery problem but I guess it wasn't.
>
> The computer acted as if the drive were not there. I installed it in a
> different machine and it was not detected in the other machine either.
> The firmware ("BIOS" is not the correct term) on both machines failed
> to see it. A live Fedora system (booted off a USB stick) failed to
> see it. It's dead, Jim.
>
> Lesson: SSDs don't give you warning about failures. Much worse (in my
> modest experience) than HDDs. Backup now. I'm skeptical about
> S.M.A.R.T. for SSDs.
Hugh,
When I bought a hard drive at Best Buy, I asked about SSDs. I understand
that there is a maximum number of writes you can do to them, and the number is
rather small. I was buying a backup drive that runs at night while I am in
bed, so I went for cheap and reliable.
--
Howard Gibson
hgib...@eol.ca
jhowardgib...@gmail.com
http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson
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