On 12 Jul 2023 at 21:49, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:49:34 -0700 Subject: Re: WD BLUE SSD died. Not even seen in BIOS or via USB? To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Copies to: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > On 7/12/23 15:53, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Had the WD SSD just die in one of my 5 Home Fedora 37 > > machines. Reply from WD is just it is out of warranty. > > > > Wondering if others are seeing this or it is just one bad drive. > > > > Have machines monitor all my computers every 15 minutes, so it > > reported machine was down. Check machine, and it was showing > > errors. So went to reboot it to run fsck, but on reboot, it doesn't > > even see the disk in bios. > > Tried different cables, and different ports, and even hooked it to > > other computers, but no response at all. dmesg doesn't even show > > anything when hooked with a USB adapter.. > > > > Hooked the old regular hard disk that had been in machine before I > > imaged it to the SSD disk. It booted just fine, but that had Fedora > > 35, so ran the upgrade to 36, and then to 37. So have machine > > back up, and restored 99% of the stuff from copies of files on other > > machine. > > > > I contacted WD more to see why there was no warning, and if > > there was any way to recover data? They did ask for a picture of > > top and bottom of disk, and gave them the lshw -c disk info on my > > other 5 WD SSD disks. Been happy with speed, but if they are > > going to fail like this not sure if WD brand has gone down hill? > > > > Just wonder if there are any options or should do something to > > avoid failures. Use to have Novell Servers with Duplex drives, but > > fortunately never had any of the SCSI disks fail. > > > > > DriveSavers Data Recovery > > Work phone: 415.382-8000 > 800.440.1904 > WWW: www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com Looked at site, and they talk about having to build custom materials since they are so many variations of ssd chip sets and all kinds of other things. Under costs, they don't mention anything, so sure it would many times the cost of drive. Once had a coworker have a regular 60G drive that had chip on board fry. Was able to find a used disk with same number on board for $20 on ebay. Swapped the disk controller board and was able to get all data. Never opened an ssd drive, or even it it is possible. Had 99% of things on other computers so just had once script I had written and hadn't copied to other machine. Took about an hour to rewrite. So no critical data. Just wondering if the tech isn't up to standards. I have actual done a disk imaging project since 2004, but it takes time to make images. Also, have worked with duplexed drives with Novell, so perhaps better to setup mirrored drive on machines. Unfortunately, my notebook only has a single drive setup. Hopefully, this is just a random failure and others will be running for years. Had some maxtor drives that were still running after 10 years. Drive was made in 09Sep2022 so isn't even a year old, so surprized WD said it was out of warranty?? Sent them pictures of disk. Waiting for reply. Web site didn't except the serial number from drive, so don't know if perhap this wasn't a legit disk. Perhaps they will respond in a few days. Again. Thanks for reply. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
