[FRIAM] First of 2 questions

[Gillian Densmore]

My backups are at 1 infinite loops drive aka google drive, for stuff that I
literally can't replace I keep their, and on a nice USB drive WD passport I
got. a few years ago.
What causes SSD to just die?  is that a limitation of of read/writes as
compared to hours of use (SATA)?


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 7:19 PM Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:50:52PM -0600, Gillian Densmore 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
>
> I have had three SSDs die on me, the last one 2018, just prior to it's
> 3 year warranty running out. I managed to get a replacement for that
> by sending the original back to Taiwan. But had to buy a replacement
> anyway (newer NVMe technology, so quite a performance bump), as I
> couldn't wait for them to post back the replacement, and that
> replacement is still going strong.
>
> I have also had multiple spinning rust disks die on me over the years,
> sometimes with a loud clunk and a wisp of smoke. But nothing in the
> last decade or so, so maybe HDD has become super reliable.
>
> In each an every case, I buy a new disk, restore from backups and
> continue trucking. You do do backups don't you?
>
> I have sometimes recovered failing HDDs by doing something along the
> lines of (on Linux)
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sda
>
> where sda is the name of you hard disk. This works by forcing the disk
> to use some spare blocks, mapping the old bad blocks to the fresh ones.
>
> Somewhat less successful for SSDs, though, as I suspect the
> filesystems automatically do that now under the guise of "wear levelling"
>
> Can't comment what you'd do with Windows - probably just download a live
> Linux distro, and use Linux files system tools is what I'd do.
>
>
>
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>
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