[FRIAM] First of 2 questions

[Gillian Densmore]

lol loud clunk and smoke? this sounds like the start a steampunk
mis-adventure.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:09 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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