It's an SSD, It's supposed to live for 10 years. What could go wrong? The first hard drive my MacBook Pro had still lives. I can't imagine why my MacBook Air wouldn't live for 5 more years.
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Apple developers must hate Math, miscalculated my disk space.
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It's an SSD, It's supposed to live for 10 years. What could go wrong? The first hard drive my MacBook Pro had still lives. I can't imagine why my MacBook Air wouldn't live for 5 more years.
What would happen if your MBA was stolen?
What would happen if your SSD dies? (Believe me, that does happen)
Talk about something that doesn't add up. Although, given the initial assumption behind this tread, it's not surprising.
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Just because an SSD is rated to live for 10 years doesn't mean stuff doesn't happen, either through failure or human error.
I have HDDs older than 10 years which still work, I have had HDDs die after less than one year. Theoretically SSDs can live for 10 years (though no real life experiences can be posted yet, as SSDs are not that old yet), but what if yours does not?
Anyway, depending on how much of your data is valuable to you, you could either look into DropBox (2 GB free, but you can get up to 18 GB or so with referrals and other tricks) or iCloud for small text documents, or spend 50 to 100 USD for one or two external HDDs if you have more than just some GBs of text and other documents.
I have one 500 GB HDD for my photographs (digital and analog) libraries and editing documents, one 500 GB HDD with my personal video footage in an editing friendly format.
Both 500 GB HDDs get backed up to one 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
And that 1 TB HDD gets backed up to another 1 TB HDD via CarbonCopyCloner.
Therefore I have three copies of my important data. Those fur HDDs are cheaper (300 at the most) than spending more than 2000 for data recovery for two failed HDDs (the 500 GB ones).
If you value your data and don't want to lose it, spend a bit to back it up. It might be, that you never have to fall back on a backup, but what if? Data recovery with kaputt SSDs is not really my area of expertise, but I imagine it to be much harder than with HDDs (which you can dissect quite easily and find bits here and there on the platters).
It is up to you.
One of Dawg's rules... data storage is always cheaper than data recovery
We don't live in a vacuum
You could have theft, physical damage to the computer, user error, disk failure, lightning strikes/power surge, ad infinitum
Famous last words. Computer components don't die on a matter of "if" but rather they die on a matter of "when" regardless of the manufacturer or supplier.
I can imagine that it wouldn't. The only reason not to have backups is not having anything worth backing up.
Remember, there are:
1024 bytes in a kilobyte
1024 kilobytes in a megabyte
1024 megabytes in a gigabyte
1024 gigabytes in a terabyte
It all has to do with the 2^10 = 1024.
Since Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard storage space gets reported using the base ten, thus 1,000,000,000,000 bytes get reported as 1 TB instead of 932 or so GB.
Well... Sort of.
Common usage is like that. However, since that conflicts with the standard prefixes for everything else, the IEC standardized new terms for kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes, etc, which are based on 1024.
Hard drive manufacturers had already been using 1000 bytes = 1KB and so on in their marketing materials for years, because it's technically correct but it confuses the use as well.