[ale] OT: failed SSD and Windows

[Joey Kelly]

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 9:35:33 AM CST Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> I never reuse a drive that starts showing errors. Recipe for disaster. Drive
> replacement is easier than drive replacement plus data recovery.

Right. if you want to use in on a lab machine that you don't care about, do 
that, else destroy it and throw it in the trash.

I was going to ask what brand SSD you have. Intel's are write-limited and 
simply stop working at some point, while others are failure-prone (Corsair, 
I'm still glaring at you from a decade ago).

--Joey


> On February 8, 2022 9:55:55 AM EST, Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> 
wrote:
> >Hard drive have failed on machine that works 24-7. Would you try to
> >reformat SSD or simply install new one.
> >
> >Considering the limited write cycles for SSD is likely damage beyond
> >repair?


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