05-28-2015, 10:04 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Gareth]
When SSDs die, they can do so without warning. I've had two go bad so far.
I've been researching recently in preparation for my first SSD purchase and one of the conclusions I've reached is that when SSDs fail, they tend to do so with little to no warning and that backups are even more critical for SSDs than they are for magnetic HDs.
This mirrors my experience, we had a 120GB OWC MEPro 3G SSD fail after ~2 years of use with no warning, luckily we are backup-paranoid. The warranty replacement Electra 3G has been chugging away for at least 2 years since then in a series of daily-used laptops with no issues.
Getting that early SSD was great as Mrs. Zealand's old Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz MBPro smoked all the other brand new quad core i7 MBPros in everyday tasks as those were all saddled with spinny HDs. The 6GB RAM upgrade helped as well but it ultimately died the GPU death of many of those Santa Rosa units. Still, the RAM and SSD live on in my oldie-but-goodie 2.4 Santa Rosa MB.