Finally figured out why my studio pc has been giving me so much grief.

[DrNomis_44]

May I suggest that if you are using Solid-State Drives (SSD) then you make sure your back up and recovery practices are thorough and well managed?

Magnetic platter drives (SATA, IDE etc) tend to give hints that they are about to fail - lost sectors, bad blocks, general flakiness and the like. This gives you a prompt to get everything backed up and secure.

SSD's don't.

They simply stop working all of a sudden. Stone-motherless dead. Dead as a dodo.

SSD's are quick and reliable but when they decide it is time to go, don't expect any warning or any chance of recovery.

Good point, I'm going to be investing in a couple of new 3Tb external hard drives for backing up purposes.


Funny thing is, the two Sata HDs that failed gave me no warning at all, the S.M.A.R.T. was enabled for both, but no problems were reported up until they failed, fortunately I didn't lose much data since I had done my backing up.