[ale] OT: failed SSD and Windows

[Joey Kelly]

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 5:42:40 PM CST Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> I was just pointing the model.
> 
> The choice is not up to me.

Yeah, that's the start of my sob story. We put out 70 routers on near-shore 
vessels around the globe. The guy running the project insisted we save $20 per 
drive, against my advice. So the Corsair units, after a couple of months, 
they'd act as if internally the data was like a chess board, and someone 
bumped the table, shifting a bunch of pieces over a square or two. Running 
fsck would fix it, but a week or so later the data got shoved around again. 
The drives were useless.

Replacement? Oh, around $3k per drive (the vessels were offshore in Africa, 
Viet Nam and all sorts of inaccessible places unless a lot of money was spent 
flying a tech to the country in question, then several day's travel to get to 
the boats. What fun. Never again will I use cheap parts.

--Joey


> 
> I was more wondering about technical aspects.
> 
> Magnetic hard drive is more likely to get back in service than SSD I
> would think.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 17:22 Calvin Harrigan via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> > Don't waste your time.  Spend a few bucks more and get something new and
> > recognizable. The listed on ebay is used...  :/
> > 
> > 
> > https://www.microcenter.com/product/511699/crucial-bx500-240gb-ssd-micron-> > 3d-nand-sata-iii-6gb-s-25-internal-solid-state-drive
> > 
> > On 2/8/2022 17:07, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't seen that brand before :)
> > 
> > Link from eBay
> > 
> > https://www.ebay.com/itm/194260368529
> > 
> > Installed 6-6-21. Failed 2-8-22.
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 16:26 Joey Kelly via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >> 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?
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Joey Kelly
> >> Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant
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> >> 
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Joey Kelly
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