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Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ?
Date 2016-12-04 06:02 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-12-04, billy@MIX.COM <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> writes:
>
>> You're assuming that you will notice it crapping out. Unlike  spinning
>> rust discs, an SSD will continue to remain readable after writes become
>> a problem.
>
> There is so much bullshit in this thread.  I'm not going to read it all,
> but here is an example of writes not failing but a read does (an OWC SSD,
> although that's relevant only because I have dozens of them and this is
> only the second one to have a problem) (pardon my not wrapping the text,
> viewing with a 132 column wide screen is suggested) -
>
> disk0s2: I/O error.
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 73046760] [LBlkNum 176045]
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk0s2] [MountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db]
> disk0s2: I/O error.
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 73046760] [LBlkNum 176045]
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk0s2] [MountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db]
> disk0s2: I/O error.
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 73046760] [LBlkNum 176045]
>    0 [Level 3] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk0s2] [MountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/systemstats/snapshots.db]
>
> I'm now at 15,855 of these errors.  The system remains quite usable - I'm
> posting this note with it, email is fine, etc.  I'm guessing the defect
> managemant (bad block replacement) is failing coz the bad block here can't
> be read.
>
>> But you may encounter a situation where after saving a document, the
>> middle 4 blocks contain invalid data because the SSD was unable to write
>> those 4 blocks and nobody noticed.
>
> That'd only be because you ignored the error message thrown into the middle
> of your screen.
>
>> This isn't FUD
>
> Sure it is.
>
> Imagining shit that does not exist is...  Ummm...  F.U.D.

No shit. Anyone who thinks a modern OS *won't* let you know when a read
or write fails is an idiot. There's nothing new to see here folks. Move
along.

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JR

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How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-27 14:55 -0500
  Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-27 20:07 +0000
    Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-27 20:18 -0500
      Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-27 20:32 -0500
        Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-27 20:54 -0500
          Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-27 20:56 -0500
            Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 02:09 +0000
          Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 02:05 +0000
            Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-27 23:36 -0500
              Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-28 07:31 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-28 13:41 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-28 14:32 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? android <here@there.was> - 2016-11-28 21:05 +0100
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 20:39 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-28 18:52 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 23:56 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-11-28 19:06 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-11-28 19:53 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-28 18:30 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 20:38 +0000
              Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 20:37 +0000
      Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-28 01:47 +0000
      Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-28 06:31 +0000
        Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-28 02:07 -0500
          Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-29 01:40 +0000
          Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:56 -0800
            Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-29 18:28 -0500
              Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-30 00:52 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-30 03:20 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-30 00:54 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-30 07:19 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-30 16:38 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-01 00:44 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-11-30 21:11 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-01 03:34 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-01 12:55 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-01 16:51 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-01 18:46 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-01 19:37 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-02 00:46 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-12-02 01:42 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 01:04 -0800
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-12-02 08:06 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 08:50 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-03 15:07 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-03 15:16 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 10:57 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-03 17:06 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 17:25 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-04 00:32 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-03 21:19 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2016-12-03 21:39 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-12-03 19:41 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-03 21:26 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-04 05:59 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-12-04 21:48 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-05 18:01 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-12-05 22:17 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 10:51 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-02 10:28 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-12-03 08:48 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-03 15:02 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-02 17:54 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2016-12-05 00:08 -0800
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-05 16:10 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2016-12-05 12:47 -0800
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-05 21:53 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? joe <none@domain.invalid> - 2016-11-30 07:55 -0600
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-30 11:12 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-11-30 16:44 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-11-30 17:14 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-01 00:53 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-01 12:58 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-30 20:15 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? billy@MIX.COM - 2016-12-04 05:25 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-12-04 06:02 +0000
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-12-04 02:00 -0500
                Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-12-04 18:42 +0000
              Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? Jim Gibson <JimSGibson@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 18:10 -0800

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