You ever spent a significant chunk of time configuring a computer just so? I’ve been doing a bit of that recently during my recuperation period. Got it all nicely configured, even have some online backups going and then BAM! Bye bye ssd ☹️
Now this computer is not critical to me in any way. This is just a playground built upon a cheap-ish Lenovo IdeaPad. I had a dual boot Ubuntu/Windows setup on there and used it for mostly testing out various software that I found interesting and that doesn’t run on MacOS. So at the end of yesterday I went to stop my streaming music from playing and Gnome was unresponsive. Clicky clicky, nothing. Ctrl-alt-backspace.. nothing.. OK fine I’ll power cycle.
I don’t know what happened to that SSD, but like Doc Bones always said “It’s dead, Jim”. Completely. I do know that I had experienced some significant i/o wait times but I thought that was just due to this not being a particularly fast PC. Could that have been a harbringer of doom?
For those that are curious the SSD in question was a Crucial BX500 480gb. I don’t recall exactly when it was purchased, likely within the last 5 years and was lightly utilized.