When Steve Jobs died a lot of people apparently bailed. QA is definitely a problem on these things.
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When Steve Jobs died a lot of people apparently bailed. QA is definitely a problem on these things.
Is QA really the problem, or is the problem being forced to produce a new OS on a schedule every year for reasons known only to ….. whoever????
My personal opinion is that Apple is marching towards an "App Store Only" environment for Macs just like it is for the iPhone. Security looks like it's going to be the excuse they use, but the reality is they probably want to start tapping into 30% of the developers income. Getting paid for basically doing nothing - yes, that does sound like Wall Street to me.
If they try that they'll lose about half the products being developed for Macs, especially those where the Mac application is actually a product that was initially on Windows. Developers will only put up with the "let's change everything…again" mentality that seems to be dominating Apple these days.
They're already ticking a lot of people off with rootless mode. If you want to have some fun, open up an El Capitan log and look at all the errors it's reporting for almost any event.
Cindori used to have problems with trim enabler but either they got it fixed or Apple modified the OS so it wasn't quite so restrictive:
https://www.cindori.org/safely-enable-trim-on-yosemite-and-el-capitan/
I know of no problems with SSDs. Very few of them come with drivers, although they may come with drive management software that typically only works on Windows.
Most of that software isn't drivers but utilities to update the firmware. Some may have tools to initialize the disk or check for errors. Few vendors provide anything at all directly. The best thing to do before getting an SSD is to check out the downloads section on that drive's support site and see what they have and what format it's in.
With 10.10.4 and newer OS X has trimforce which is their own version of trim. Cindori will be needed if wanted on earlier OS X versions, but after 10.10.4 there's no real need for it to the best of my knowledge.
You shouldn't need any drivers at all for an internal SSD. Some manufacturers are now making external SSDs that may require drivers, especially if they're using USB 3. Most of the stuff downloaded for internal SSDs is for firmware updates. Like you said, though, too often all they support is DOS/Windows.
When you consider that nearly every unix-based server in the world is running a Linux variant, that base is larger than you think.
The disconnect here is that you're neglecting servers when you state "user base". I will admit that if running servers, you'll want to use an enterprise-grade disk regardless of type (SSD, SSHD, HDD, etc.) but consumer grade SSDs still fit that mold.
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My SSD just croaked. No warning whatsoever. No signs of failure, no SMART warnings, no test warnings, it's like it just disappeared. I put the old HDD back in and the system is up. I put the SSD into an external enclosure and once again, no signs of anything. I even put the HDD back into the external enclosure just to confirm and the HDD worked.
Is there some way to reset these things, like maybe somehow it locked itself out? It's a Samsung 840 EVO. I don't even think it was two years old yet.
Is there some way to reset these things, like maybe somehow it locked itself out? It's a Samsung 840 EVO. I don't even think it was two years old yet.
If the SSD is that new it should be under warranty. I believe it is 3 years
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B-Eugen wrote:
"My SSD just croaked. No warning whatsoever. No signs of failure, no SMART warnings, no test warnings, it's like it just disappeared."
From what I've read, that's the way SSD's "die".
They don't exhibit warning signs like a platter-based HDD will, they just .... disappear.
For this reason, it's essential that users keep a bootable cloned backup "close by".
Either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper can do this, but CCC has an advantage in that it can clone the recovery partition, as well.
One can then "run off the backup" for as long as necessary, and then "re-clone it over" once a replacement SSD has been installed.
Having only a Time Machine backup is going to make this process more complicated. You can't just "boot to the finder and run" while you're waiting for the replacement SSD to arrive...
"My SSD just croaked. No warning whatsoever. No signs of failure, no SMART warnings, no test warnings, it's like it just disappeared."
From what I've read, that's the way SSD's "die".
They don't exhibit warning signs like a platter-based HDD will, they just .... disappear.
For this reason, it's essential that users keep a bootable cloned backup "close by".
Either CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper can do this, but CCC has an advantage in that it can clone the recovery partition, as well.
One can then "run off the backup" for as long as necessary, and then "re-clone it over" once a replacement SSD has been installed.
Having only a Time Machine backup is going to make this process more complicated. You can't just "boot to the finder and run" while you're waiting for the replacement SSD to arrive...
Laptop or desktop unit? One of the things that can cause an SSD to fail is a sudden power loss. That shouldn't happen with a laptop, assuming the battery is good, because it never really loses power and should shut down gracefully. A desktop unit however may be subjected to sudden power outage if the power is cut. How often this really happens I don't know, but it's a possibility. I think the controller failing is a good possibility because usually if an SSD dies from a sudden power outage it's still visible as a drive, it's usually seen as having just been wiped, it's read-only, or the OS reports it can't do anything to the drive. The difference here is that the drive's presence is acknowledged and the system can't do anything with it. In your case the SSD isn't even showing up, so something major likely went.
Electronics aren't forever. The control panel on a brand new microwave I bought died for no reason either. Things just fail sometimes.