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Old 05-02-2022, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by buzzy View Post
Good grief. What goes wrong with an SSD? I thought they were failure-proof because of no moving parts.
NOTHING is failure PROOF, but that being said I have had hard-drives since somewhere around 1981 (first one was a Shugart ST506(??) 5 MEGAbyte (LOL) attached to a circa 1978 hacked TRS-80 Model One (before PC's) running a dialup BBS. From that one until now (2 x 1 Terabyte and 1 x 500Gig SSD's) I have never had a single hard drive failure. Guess I'm just lucky but still do full backups every night "just in case" both to cloud and a NAS. Like myself my hard drive luck is on borrowed time (as is our air conditioner )!

I'd hate to think that the OP's "bad SSD" might have just needed a low-level format (aka secure erase). Hopefully the store returned the "bad drive" to him.
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