On 14/10/13 16:23, Paul Tansom wrote:
> I'm with you on the distrust of hard drives, and I'm even more uncomfortable at
> this point with SSD drives which seem to have more potential for catastrophic
> failure than the so called 'spinning rust' type - as in I've only ever seen
> complete failure on solid state media, whereas on traditional hard drives I
> have pretty much always had a bit of warning of impending doom.
>
> I'm quite impressed you've seen a SMART error, the only time I've seen one is
> on a drive I already knew was failing - in fact I was inthe process of
> checking, then it died, then I got the SMART error. No other drive I've worked
> with has shown a SMART error even after failure! That said, I did see a SMART
> error on the screen of a machine at my son's school last week when preparing
> for Code Club - I've no idea whether this was a pre-emptive warning as
> intended, or a 'whoops, too late' message ;)
Both the 4GB and 16GB SSDs failed on my old Eee 900, but in both cases I
could still read most of the files on them. I had backups anyway, but
no recent work was lost. The first I knew of the problems both times
was SMART errors caught by Disk Utility in Ubuntu. (Once one had failed
I trusted the other much less!)
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