Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Date: 28 Nov 2016 02:05:18 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <583b3a29$0$1567$c3e8da3$12bcf670@news.astraweb.com> <583b85ff$0$10986$c3e8da3$f017e9df@news.astraweb.com> <271120162032497326%nospam@nospam.invalid> <583b8e6a$0$1431$b1db1813$79461190@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net O8AETbJuvf3B9u3XCv0eVQ1n2SiQyGut4j1RJZh13fJS3cTLp0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:BlTOxRXfIct851Wf8HhXh5JV8Ck= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:97387 On 2016-11-28, JF Mezei wrote: > > It this is is important for user who outlasts the machine's "marketing" > lifetime to know whether the OS will provide hints or noti It's not important at all for most users I know. As long as you have a recent backup, you're fully prepared for your storage devices to fail - as all of them absolutely will eventually. It's definitely not worth my time and trouble to babysit my storage devices in anticipation of some far-off day when they finally fail, when I can replace one in minutes and restore from backup to get back up and running again in short order. Computers are here to work for us - not the other way around. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR