Even if I had a drive made from titanium, platinum and gold, I'd still back up my drive. Other posters have listed all the things that can happen, so I won't repeat them. However, even if none of those happen to your drive, you should still follow the old computer adage: hope for the best, expect the worst.
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Is It Really Necessary To Back Up If You Have A SSD?
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Hi!
Sorry but i am not using mac or any apple product for a reason... as it tech i just came find solution for 1 of my customer mac problem "drive failure"...
SSD drives are realy bad idea for now ofcrs faster but eventually they WILL fail Mobiles also using fls IC or DiskOnChip they also failing i wote for conventional HDD for now in my M17X i using 3 WD Scrpio Blue 5200RPM, no high speed drives i dont trust them thus drives failing much earlier. also dont use raid my laptop was designed for 2 drives max not for 3 hence not support raid 5...
conclusion
with a demaged conventional HDD i able to get it working "partially" with programs or even change the board or put the disk into another exact same hdd for a sort time,the ssd i have got the problem with the controller blowed up?? wthout that cpu no way to get data off from multiple flash ic's just wander ho much sandisk gonna charge my customer to get confidental data off if is possible at all...
Sorry but i am not using mac or any apple product for a reason... as it tech i just came find solution for 1 of my customer mac problem "drive failure"...
SSD drives are realy bad idea for now ofcrs faster but eventually they WILL fail Mobiles also using fls IC or DiskOnChip they also failing i wote for conventional HDD for now in my M17X i using 3 WD Scrpio Blue 5200RPM, no high speed drives i dont trust them thus drives failing much earlier. also dont use raid my laptop was designed for 2 drives max not for 3 hence not support raid 5...
conclusion
with a demaged conventional HDD i able to get it working "partially" with programs or even change the board or put the disk into another exact same hdd for a sort time,the ssd i have got the problem with the controller blowed up?? wthout that cpu no way to get data off from multiple flash ic's just wander ho much sandisk gonna charge my customer to get confidental data off if is possible at all...
HDDs generally give some indication that they are dying.
With SSDs I would expect it works, now it doesn't type scenario.
Always good to back up your data for the reasons already mentioned in this thread.
care to elaborate?
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raid1 that baby and be done with it
raid1 that baby and be done with it
I would. I had a 500GB 2.5" spinning drive recently die on me after a few weeks of giving me indications it was about to die. I was able to get all the stuff off.
My 256GB SSD got suddenly corrupted and now it won't mount, DiskWarrior won't see it, and neither will any of the other disk repair programs. I now have a $700 paperweight...
silly that they can just fail like that hey!
can anybody explain how this sort of failure can happen? are there certain sectors on the drive - if they fail then the whole drive will fail? (MBR type thing?). seems odd that SSDs are the "new" technology yet they give LESS warning the mechanical drives.
Not only does HW fail, but SW also can have bugs and just through user brainlock critical data may be deleted or overwritten. Of course backups of such data are always required.
If you haven't got anything worth saving, a backup is pointless.
If you, on the other hand, write documents, develop code, create images, edit video or record music etc., and you find that you will have a hard time living without the stuff you make - then backup is the way to go. An online service like Dropbox is suitable for a lot of people.
The number one reason for loss of data is theft of the equipment. Your SSD will not help you there.
The #2 reason for loss of "operator error" and then there is software problems and so on.
Also SSD will fail. Nothing lasts forever.
So here is the plan: Buy an external drive and set up Time Machine and also but a couple more external drives and makebackups that to rotate to far away safe locations. Other then the time machine drive, don't keep backups near your computer or plugged into any kind of cable or power. I keep one copy in a fire safe and another at the office
What if you accidentally delete an important file?
What if there is a data corruption that destroys the contents?
What if someone steals your computer?
What if a truck runs over it?
What if there is a fire and the computer burns up?
Don't kid yourself. Bill Gates has home insurance. It costs a lot less to insure a mansion than to pay for one outright.
The reason for backing up is to prevent loss. No matter what your system/parts, you should always have SOME kind of back-up system in place for anything you simply cannot lose. I mean, an SSD won't survive a fire...
Given my recent experience with a Time Capsule, you have to back up your back-ups also
Given my recent experience with a Time Capsule, you have to back up your back-ups also
oh no! what happened there?
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Died after 24 months .... as many others TC
Fortunately I had a backup (not so updated, but quite recent) on another external hard disk.
Apple gave me another refurbished TC, but I've lost my faith in that kind of unit, so I'm selling the new one and I bought an Airport Extreme.
Died after 24 months .... as many others TC
Fortunately I had a backup (not so updated, but quite recent) on another external hard disk.
Apple gave me another refurbished TC, but I've lost my faith in that kind of unit, so I'm selling the new one and I bought an Airport Extreme.
oh. is that all!! i thought you had some sort of corruption or something!
you should have done what i did, pull the thing apart, put the HDD into another computer (or case), take all the data off, put it back together, and tell apple it failed. they gave us a new one. but yes its still the old model so bound to fail again in 20months or so.
It doesn't matter if you have a ssd or just a normal HD, you MUST backup your data in either case! All HDs fail at some point or another! Better to be safe than sorry