8 Sep
2024
8 Sep
'24
11:23 a.m.
On Sunday 08 September 2024 02:11:44 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Sunday 08 September 2024 08.18:30 William Morder
via tde-users wrote:
Yes, that's more or less what I am thinking, to find a machine to use to test
these drives. Moreover, I am not confident that the same thing won't happen
again if I get a new SSD to replace these. If the fault is in the machine
itself, the SATA connector, whatever, I would just ruin another drive.
Besides which, these SSDs are not so fabulous as they promise.
My only problem is, my other machines that I might use for testing (desktop,
old laptops, etc.) are in yet a different storage place -- far, far away from
here rather than a walk across town.
So for the moment, I do at least have a working system, and everything looks
and works exactly like before; which is to say, almost perfect, except of
course for little things like a non-working SSD. And I still have all my work
and other data on external drives, so it's not the end of the world.
I know a few friends of the GNU/Linux persuasion, so I hope to get their help,
or to use one of their old machines for testing.
Bill
At present I have install my entire system on a
256 gb flash drive,
Any ideas about how to proceed are welcome.
Just to make sure we have all informations:
- You can boot your laptop from a flash drive, so at leat that USB port is
working
- none of your SSDs are seem by your "flash" system if you connect them to
other USB ports with your adapters
I suppose you don't have another computer available to test connecting the
ssd's on it?
It seems to me the key is to get some machine to see you drive, then you
can reformat them. If no machine can see the drives, then I am afraid they
are dead. The main drawback of SSD compared to traditionnal SATA is that
you usually "see" your SATA drive dying, but your SSD gives no warning.
Thierry