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 02:09:39 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 25 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> <271120162056262357%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net b4oPiSqxKw2ofi8DGVpftANOdrcDR8ivaIa/u8FdLtyInFXVaF Cancel-Lock: sha1:h1dGgxoE0Zkus8+7+Ex8pSeduks= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:97388 On 2016-11-28, nospam wrote: > In article <583b8e6a$0$1431$b1db1813$79461190@news.astraweb.com>, JF > Mezei wrote: >> >> And depending on interface, the OS has means to get such errors. (VMS >> could for instance get those indications from SCSI, DSSI and MSCP >> drives, but its ATA drivers were not setup to collect them). > > you can run a smart monitoring utility if it matters to you. For those of us who are fully prepared for storage failures, such things are nothing but a distraction from getting shit done. People who constantly babysit their computers are just sapping their own productivity for no real gain. > it's not important because the ssd will outlast the computer. Yup. And if you have your data backed up, even if it does crap out early you're covered. -- 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