[FRIAM] First of 2 questions

[Gillian Densmore]

Any ideas for how to force this damn thing to work again? or would it make
a better frisby for someone pooch.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:50 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was given a PNY brand SSD for a present  about march this year. this
> last Thursday. the damn thing stopped working. As in on strike, took a dump
> on the bed. And Nothing I have done will get the F'n thing back to life.
>
> Symptoms are that it doesn't show up in BIOS, Windows thinks it's a
> unformated drive, booting into Ubuntu to try to get the fucking to to just
> god damn work gives a million errors about nodes, and F'sync.
> And my hunch is the POS has died.
> Questions!  Does thatis happen to SSD's? they'll just stop working,
> because, reasons?  Family naturally wants do stuff with a warante not sure
> it's worth it if the fucker just died.
> I have tried unplugging cables, wiggling wobling and just about everything
> to get it back to life.
> On the off chance the bastard can be revived: is their software out their
> to force the god damn thing to work? windows
> https://ibb.co/TH2rvc0 <---this is what the fucking thing does now
>
> Expected behavior: a disk named Big Phun, with about 800gigs used as at
> slot I
> Actual Behavior: it ignored ElectroBoom and grabbed a bunch of wires, out
> for the count.
>
> My hunch is it's as dark matter.
>
> Follow up Qs
> Are SSDs just unreliable?
> Are old-school  SATA  drives better as far as not flying apart when
> hitting transwarp?
>
>
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