Free Space and SSD death

[Miltz]

If your SSD has died in your MacBook, Can you please tell us approx how much free available space was your drive, The Size of your Drive, and The brand.

 

[magbarn]

Another good question to ask if they applied the apple firmware update for Toshiba SSDs that came out a few months ago.

 

[henryonapple]

If your SSD has died in your MacBook, Can you please tell us approx how much free available space was your drive, The Size of your Drive, and The brand.

I first started experiencing problems when my 128 TS SSD was nearly full. I trashed some things to make more space, but it still died on me.

----------

Another good question to ask if they applied the apple firmware update for Toshiba SSDs that came out a few months ago.

This update will show up in the App Store updates right? If so I updated, but still had my SSD fail on me.

 

[magbarn]

I first started experiencing problems when my 128 TS SSD was nearly full. I trashed some things to make more space, but it still died on me.

----------



This update will show up in the App Store updates right? If so I updated, but still had my SSD fail on me.

SSD's take a big hit when nearly full, not only are you going to wear them out much faster, but the performance takes a big hit as well.
Even so, a WELL-DESIGNED SSD controller should accommodate for this and not grenade itself like this Toshiba/Sandforce combo

The reason I brought up the SSD update is a poster in another thread insinuated that these failures are from users not applying the firmware update.

 

[tey112]

SSD failed, I think, at 13 month on my 13" 2012 MBA 128GB, 8GB RAM. I assume it was toshiba, but I can't tell now.

Free space was about 30-40gb, no heavy file transfers or read/writes that I can think of. Filevault was active the entire time I was using the computer.