Dodged a bullet

[ODark30]

Yesterday when I booted up my rig it came up with a warning that my WD ssd was about to fatally die. I was able to get to the bios and confirm the warning plus I bypassed the warning and booted into windows. Using a 3rd party app I confirmed once again that the ssd was done.

I still had time to back up my stuff to another drive and make a bootable restore drive. Went to BestBuy and got a new ssd, installed it quick and easily and proceeded to completely restore my computer. A couple of hours and everything was back clean and fresh.

Dont wait until you get this kind of warning and make sure to keep important stuff backed up. You may not get lucky like me and only find out that your ssd has died when it is completely dead.

 

[Carlos]

I forgot where I saw it, but they DO say that you should never let an SSD go full. Otherwise it "dies." After that point, it slows down, and writes slow.

It's not just the fact that it won't save your information, it slows down.

I saw some people doing this: One SSD or Hard Drive for OS, one SSD or Hard Drive for files, and some people even save one SSD/Hard Drive for the games. Better yet, cycle through the games. Unless you're talking about bloated Call of Duty.

 

[ArchAngel72]

1 is none and 2 is 1, you need 3 to be properly backed up.

 

[ODark30]

LOL, you are so right!!!

 

[ArchAngel72]

Ah but do you have a real back up somewhere off site in a safe location, ie a safety deposit box.

 

[ODark30]

No not really. I have a bunch of important stuff on usb drives and some on OneDrive. For the most part, the stuff that I could potentially use on a daily, weekly or monthly, is saved by builtin resources. For example, BF6 is safe. I use Firefox and have all my important things Sync'd internally. I definitely get what you are saying about off site and for me the usb drives are the closes to that standard that I do. A lot of important papers are stored separately including with my lawyers. To be honest I dont store a lot of important stuff on my harddrives and view it more as a convenient place to have things that I can acquire again quite easily if the worst should happen.