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Death and Resurrection of an SSD

rentzsch:

Summary: SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups.

And sometimes, they come back from the dead.

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On November 30 2010, I received my first SSD: a 240 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro.

On Thursday, November 10 2011, the…

Something to keep track of … Just installed one of these in my MBP a few weeks back.

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    Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch:...Fascinating report....seems that...
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    This is the first I’ve heard of an SSD being anything less than an improvement over a regular spinning hard drive. I’m-a...
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    … Just installed
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    Too much uncertainty...me. That’s why I’m going...new...
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