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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: How does OS-X behave with a dead SSD ? |
| Date | 2016-12-01 00:53 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <ea9akbFqsreU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <slrno3s8ou.1s71.g.kreme@snow.local> <ea6usbF9ovmU1@mid.individual.net> <583e6990$0$51650$c3e8da3$f6268168@news.astraweb.com> <301120161112572363%nospam@nospam.invalid> <583f4824$0$34642$c3e8da3$dbd57e7@news.astraweb.com> |
On 2016-11-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote: > On 2016-11-30 11:12, nospam wrote: > >> the app will let you know the write failed, at which point you can >> take action. > > Are you sure ? You've got to be pretty ignorant to actually think a modern operating system *won't* let you know when a read or write fails. > The SSD having virtualized the "disk block" could simply map the cell > as "bad" and complete succesfully the write to another cell and the > app wouldn't know. Now you are confusing read/write *failures* with bad block *mapping* - two completely different things. Spinning hard drives also map out bad blocks on the fly; but you aren't at all "concerned" about them, are you? Because: FUD. > I don't know if SSDs do that or if they report a write error to the OS > (which then reports bakc to app). Hence my questions. And you are rejecting any answer that doesn't agree with your silly narrative. You aren't trying to learn anything. As always, ignorance reigns supreme with you. >> ssds are way more reliable than hard drives. > > Yet, they use a technology with finite lifetime. A spinning rust > platter could last 30 years or fail in 2 weeks. Hard drives have finite lifetimes as well; but you aren't expressing your fear, uncertainty, and doubt about them. > And the failure modes for SSD are different. A read or write operation either succeeds or fails. If it fails, the file system and operating system are notified of the failure, and the user is informed. That's true of SSDs or hard drives. >> why aren't you whining for early warnings with hard drives? > > Because I know how hard drives fail. Yo can often even HEAR them. Often you cannot hear them. What's your point? > I am asking about how SSD failures will be seen/noticed If a read or write operation fails, the user is notified. -- 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
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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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