Has anyone experienced SSD failure on MacBook Air?

[jtsang777]

I was not able to restore the Mac OS from either USB copy of Sierra, factory image of El Capitan, not a internet recovery of High Sierra. It gives an an error to run diagnostics. Diagnostics says no issue found but a couple days ago it said there may be a problem with the storage device (SSD). I went to the Apple Store and found it passed everything except the partition test which I saw mentioned something about HFS+ integrity that failed. They tried reformatting and running First Aid on my SSD and it still couldn’t reinstall Mac OS.

The work authorization is: Attempted to erase and reinstall 10.12 in store but it froze at 78%. Storage diagnostic passed all test except a partition test. Proposed Resolution: Check machine in for SSD triage- run full system diagnostics. Customer is unsure whether he would want to replace SSD if it is failing, call and quote if failure is confirmed. Otherwise re-attempt erase and install.

 

[saulinpa]

First: Did you totally erase the disk?
Second: I've gotten HS to install on a flaky SSD by creating a second partition on the SSD. Then copy the HS installer to the partition using Restore function. Then boot and run the installation from that partition.

 

[jtsang777]

I’ve already erased the disk using both disk utility and Terminal with diskutil erase command. I did not think of a second partition.

 

[saulinpa]

From terminal I like to use the "gpt destroy /dev/diskX" command. That really is supposed to wipe out everything.

 

[jtsang777]

From terminal I like to use the "gpt destroy /dev/diskX" command. That really is supposed to wipe out everything.

I actually did try that and unfortunately didn’t help.