Comments on: Can Data Be Recovered From A Failed SSD?

By: Mark Weiss

Mark Weiss — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:55:59 +0000

I have had two OCZ Vertex drives fail in a row, both lasting under 4 hours. My third SSD drive was an Intel X25 which, almost a year running, is still working.

By: claire

claire — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:38:24 +0000

Backup your SSD to another in the event of SSD failure.
http://www.aomeitech.com/features/disk-backup.html

By: Jon Gude

Jon Gude — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:28:33 +0000

In February/March of this year, 2012, I put together 2 PCs from components and installed Windows 7 as the Operating system on both. They are identical except for the amount of RAM and the motherboard/processor combinations. That way the contents on the hard drives in these two PCs’ can easily be backed up to each other. Both PCs also has a 60GB solid state drive where the operating system is installed.
On Dec 1 the PC that has been used a lot every day of the week would not start. It soon became evident that it was as if the solid state drive holding the operating system did not exist. The connecting cable was replaced and connected to another motherboard port but that did not help any. On the evening of the day that the problem was diagnosed, I happened to see an article headed “High heat helps ‘heal’ flash memory chips” at this web address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20579077. The first few paragraphs grabbed my attention:
->Flash memory is widely used in computers and electronic gadgets because it is fast and remembers data written to it even when unpowered.
However, flash memory reliability suffers significantly after about 10,000 write and read cycles.
Using heat, the researchers have found a way to “heal” flash memory materials to make them last 100 million cycles.
Heat has long been known to help heal degraded materials in old flash memory. But because the heat healing process meant baking the memory chip in an oven at 250C for hours, few saw it as a practical solution.<-
The drive that failed must have experienced more than 10,000 write and read cycles. When the article was noticed and read the solid state drive had already been removed from the PC and Windows 7 had been installed on one of the two partitions of a regular hard drive. The last of these 3 paragraphs suggested putting the solid state drive in the oven. The mounting hardware which had some plastic parts was removed and the little box holding the electronics was placed in the kitchen oven at about 250F, not Celsius degrees as the article suggested, for 4 hours. It was not possible to determine if there was any plastic inside this box so the temperature was kept well below 250C. Plan B was to increase the temperature in the oven.
Much to my surprise, the PC recognized the solid state drive again and the PC could be booted from it. It remains to be seen if it lasts another 10 months. The 100 million write and read cycles in the article referred to memory with a built-in heater. Maybe the solid state drives from both PCs should be taken out every half year and baked for a few hours.
Every disk manufacturer sells these solid state disk drives. It may be that the one that failed did so sooner than most but they can hardly be trusted without a significantly longer useful life.

By: Nemanja

Nemanja — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:50:05 +0000

I thought we were talking about trusting the reliability of SSD’s and what to do to mitigate the risks of failure, not computer faults/theft and backup? Same applies to ‘regular’ hard drives.
I fully agree with Bryan and RAID 1 approach.

Cheers

By: Custer

Custer — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:07:08 +0000

Flock?

By: Cheryl Safonov

Cheryl Safonov — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:19:58 +0000

Can’t agree with you more! I usually backup my files every week!

By: NE

NE — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:53:40 +0000

Hi Jesse, i was so glad when i found that there were some hope for my recovering my Intel 320 drive that was affected by the 8Mb bug, but the page you are referring to is dead and i cant find any related info on the Gillware website, did it not work properly.

By: Nikhil Chandak

Nikhil Chandak — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:50:28 +0000

thanks for the article

By: John Park

John Park — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:15:38 +0000

SSD means Solid-State Drives offer a reliable alternative to traditional hard drives with breakthrough storage performance. But corrupted in any drive due to virus, any other region so better to any other option of backup you must read this article how to recover data after data lost no backup see : http://exchangeserver.tumblr.com/post/24191654414/digital-media-corruption-wont-be-able-to-ruin-your

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:50:16 +0000

I do not have an SSD, but I subscribe to a popular internet based back up service that works in the background whenever I am online. I use my computer extensively in my everyday work and if I were unable to recover the data lost in a disk failure it would be catastrophic, hence the online back up service. If your data is irreplaceable and important it really doesn’t matter what type of drive you have, they all will fail. Backup, backup and finally backup.

By: Gian Singh

Gian Singh — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:12:11 +0000

makes you more cautious

By: Rocking Rameez

Rocking Rameez — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:51:18 +0000

still need to have more technology in ssd…till then im going to use hdd

By: Hoku Sarroca

Hoku Sarroca — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:22:07 +0000

ahhh ok Thank you!

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:56:28 +0000

SSD stands for solid state drive. This kind of storage does not use moving parts and instead uses memory chips. It can be found in any computer, tablet, or phone.

HDD stands for hard disk drive, which is used to refer to older mechanical storage drives that used rotating discs to storage data.

Hope that clears this up.

By: Hoku Sarroca

Hoku Sarroca — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:17:45 +0000

new to this SSD and HDD lingo… does SSD = tablets, what is HDD??