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MacBook HD failure - AGAIN!


Ian W

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just live with it blue screening my Win7 desktop every now and then.

 

Now that is interesting.....

 

My asus does that fairly often when coming out of standby, not during running though... (I just kinda get used to it, as I don't have the time to fix it)

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Now that is interesting.....

 

My asus does that fairly often when coming out of standby, not during running though... (I just kinda get used to it, as I don't have the time to fix it)

 

This is an Asus P5K motherboard, it never used to blue screen and I have done various tests etc like removing components and the only thing I can relate it too is also the degraded performance of the SSD, it did get really bad so I did some SSD tweeks which improved it but over time its slowly come back, the exact same setup before upgrading to an SSD was solid and would run for days on end without a glitch :D

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You know you'll lose TRIM if you do that? Just buy one, they're insanely fast anyway.
Oh indeed, but I'm curious after seeing a 2xssd array write at 850mb/s to see what I could get. Yes I'd lose garbage collection but could always just reformat and reinstall when it gets to a degrading point. I'd like more than 240gb of space and drive density for that gets cost inhibitive. If it turns out living without trim gets stupid I'd probably just jboss them and go from there.
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Right guys, a bit of an update on this.

 

I decided to update my HDD with a spanking Kingston SSD in 64GB flavour. This has ran quickly, quietly and faultlessly since June last year.....up to now :(

 

Went to turn the computer on this morning and was met with the dreaded white screen complete with flashing folder / question mark. Not again I thought?!

 

Have been straight on to ebuyer and they've said that I can return it to them for testing. If it's a fault with the SSD then they'll replace it under warranty. One thing they did mention was that as I can see the drive when connected via usb to Susan's Windows7 laptop (albeit via disk utility rather than windows explorer), it may indicate that it's not the SSD at fault but my laptop.

 

Can anyone confirm a way of telling whether it's the SSD or my MacBook that's screwed? I'd rather know before sending it to ebuyer if possible.

 

Cheers

 

Ian

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

 

My advice would be to boot it to single user mode and run a fsck -y if you don't have any install media to boot off. Steps are about half way down on the link above

 

On the ubuntu laptop did you try to write to the ssd? Some ssd fail into a read only state so it'll mount and read but you can't write to it

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Looks like its read only to me (still had Ubuntu open with the SSD mounted).

 

Will have a look at that although am switching between my iPhone and Ubuntu to solve the problem so could take me a while! (don't have a clue what the hell I'm doing in Ubuntu)

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Sounds like your disk is fubar.

 

Never store anything you want to keep on a cheap ssd. Awful things.

 

If you can afford to lose the data on it try doing a 7-pass format and see what it reports. Expect it to take a fair few minutes.

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Sounds like your disk is fubar.

 

Never store anything you want to keep on a cheap ssd. Awful things.

 

If you can afford to lose the data on it try doing a 7-pass format and see what it reports. Expect it to take a fair few minutes.

 

An currently attempting an erase and fresh install. Can I ask why you suggested a 7-pass format in particular?

 

Seems to be installing okay and is nearly finished. My problem is if this works, ebuyer won't likely replace it under warranty as in their eyes it's 'in full working order' so to speak?

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An currently attempting an erase and fresh install. Can I ask why you suggested a 7-pass format in particular?

 

Seems to be installing okay and is nearly finished. My problem is if this works, ebuyer won't likely replace it under warranty as in their eyes it's 'in full working order' so to speak?

 

If the SSD has some faults then this will be picked up by hardware tests.

 

Not been hearing great reviews regarding SSD's so I am sticking away from them for now (desktop wise).

 

Caseys - This might interest you more than the other folks! :D

 

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We got a load of SSD's in to build a VDI solution (Whiptail boxes), Exchange 2010, XenApp.

 

Plus some 3PAR Storage to come soon to have a play with.

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The fresh install has worked. Just need to figure out how to get my backed up hd onto it.

 

The warranty is three years on the SSD and I'm not even a year into it. May back up often and see how I get on? Don't really want to do another erase (can I test the disk without erasing what's on it?).

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The fresh install has worked. Just need to figure out how to get my backed up hd onto it.

 

The warranty is three years on the SSD and I'm not even a year into it. May back up often and see how I get on? Don't really want to do another erase (can I test the disk without erasing what's on it?).

 

I'd high recommend you run more backups, maybe daily?

 

Then e-mail the vendor of the SSD for a software support tool so then you test your drive.

 

These tools you can run without erasing any data, normally run on boot so then no OS is loaded.

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