Dead Mercury Electra 6G 240 gb

[RoadToad]

I tried to boot off of a (reliable for years) OWC SSD today and it's not even showing up in drive utility or disk warrior. Any suggestions on what to do to revive the drive?

[Robert M]

Road,

Drop it into an enclosure and see if that makes a difference.

Robert

[Gareth]

When SSDs die, they can do so without warning. I've had two go bad so far.

Not sure there's much to be done, other than try it in another enclosure/computer.

[OWC Jamie]

Hi-
Both suggestions are spot on. If not showing up in the enclosure, contact our tech support department to help you further.

http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm

[RoadToad]

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll try placing it in an external case later tonight. Will post results.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Gareth wrote:
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.

[Lew Zealand]

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.

[Robert M]

N-OS,

All too correct. This is why it's a good idea to backup regularly and I'd also suggest running SMART Utility regularly. The backups will ensure you lose a minimal amount of data due to a drive failure and SMART Utility will hopefully give you a heads up on the status of the drive and give you a bit of warning of a pending failure.

Robert

[RoadToad]

I got it to mount in an external case, thank you for the tip! I'm doing a carbon copy cloner disk image to be copied to the new drive. My most recent backup was a month old . Any good deals at OWC on a replacement SSD?

[C(-)ris]

If it works in the external case, then the drive itself might be just fine. Where was it installed before?