Do ssd's get bad sectors as HDD'S? My question is very simple, do ssd's get bad sectors overtime like normal HDD'S, if they do, do they spread like normal HDD'S increasing overtime?
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In my experience with SSD, gates can fail, and data blocks will be relocated to sequential gates that do not have failures. Not quite the same as an entire sector but along the lines just on a smaller scale. Now, the biggest difference is that a gate on a SSD can be overwritten a multitude of times more than any single location on a HDD before failure is to be expected. Its really like thousands of overwrites compared to just a few dozen overwrites. HDD are sectored and SSD are not, when a bit space fails on a HDD then the entire sector is isolated, when a bit space fails on a SSD it is only the single bit space (gate) that is isolated and the very next space if sequential to an entire possible block, can still be used. So, if you have a thousand failures in different sectors on a HDD then the whole HDD is shot. If you have a thousand failures on a SSD then there still could be 99% of the drive still useful. It is all reliant on how fragmented the drive has been during most of its writing.
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I bought that computer for my son, he loves it, no problems. Unfortunately I don't know what a ssd drive is, nor does he, so I can't give you any info on that.
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I have been loking around for an external drive, and I've noticed they all fail! IMO the best way to gois to have 2 of the drives and do a periodic copy of each to each. I have a free agent on my mac and it has been working perfectly, but I am looking for a drive to back up between a PC and a mac. Two cheap drives may be more reliable than a single more expensive, since they all fail and you cant "pay out" of the uncertainty. Change that: Buy two expensive hard drives and dont even fool with the Seagates..
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I've had this laptop for 6 months and haven't had a single problem. However, anecdotal evidence is hardly what you need. If people are alleging component failures, it's probably true. Then again, that's what a warranty is for.Unrelated: Cross your fingers that you don't get the Sanforce SSD. I was lucky and got the faster SSD. According to the reviews it makes a huge difference in performance. You won't know which drive you get until you open the box.
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Uncertain of its "sector" size, but I believe it was formated in NTFS using 4k clusters. There is an excellent review of this exact SSD at Anandtech web site which has more info than I can possibly provide.
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I have not worked on that particular model of laptop. However, I have worked on at least a dozen other laptops of various brand (Toshiba, Sony, HP, and Dell) and I have been successful in using SSD drives in them. Only in once Dell laptop was the drive a problem. The SSd driive is thinner than the SATA drive that comes in the laptop. Because it did not have any mounting bracket and slid directly into the laptop, it would not line up properly. I had to cut out a few sheets of thin plastic and tape them to the drive to give it the thickness it needed to line up . After that, it went in fine and has been working fine ever since. I have not worked on that particular model of laptop. However, I have worked on at least a dozen other laptops of various brand (Toshiba, Sony, HP, and Dell) and I have been successful in using SSD drives in them. Only in once Dell laptop was the drive a problem. The SSd driive is thinner than the SATA drive that comes in the laptop. Because it did not have any mounting bracket and slid directly into the laptop, it would not line up properly. I had to cut out a few sheets of thin plastic and tape them to the drive to give it the thickness it needed to line up . After that, it went in fine... » Read More I have not worked on that particular model of laptop. However, I have worked on at least a dozen other laptops of various brand (Toshiba, Sony, HP, and Dell) and I have been successful in using SSD drives in them. Only in once Dell laptop was the drive a problem. The SSd driive is thinner than the SATA drive that comes in the laptop. Because it did not have any mounting bracket and slid directly into the laptop, it would not line up properly. I had to cut out a few sheets of thin plastic and tape them to the drive to give it the thickness it needed to line up . After that, it went in fine and has been working fine ever since. « Show Less
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I just installed a new win7 os no problems at all. Then reattached my old drive and removed what I wanted , formatted it and store pictures and large programs on it. I am just sorry I did not buy a bigger SSD.
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Still faster. An SSD will almost always smoke an HDD, no matter what RPM speed, simply because there are no moving parts. The weakness is smaller capacity (1TB is HUGE for an SSD) and cost -- much more per GB, though coming down. This should be used in conjunction with a fast HDD. Typically, your operating system goes on the SSD, while your programs and data go on the HDD.
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I put in an SDD, then reformatted the drive that came preinstalled into a single partition (leaving the hidden partitions alone in case I need to restore later). After that, the drive shows up as 1.8TB, and it performs like a 5400RPM drive. That being said, I believe that in it's original configuration, it performed as an hybrid drive with 8GB of SSD, which greatly improved it's performance over a regular 5400RPM drive. Hope that helps some.
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My SSD came with a migration CD with software which worked flawlessly for me. It transferred from my HDD while in Windows, then automatically set the boot after restart. With many worries about aligning the partition, turning on TRIM, etc. I can say this was one of the most worry free SSD installs I've done.
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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No, the solid state portion of the drive engages in transparent caching. The Mac/PC is never even alerted to the existence of the solid state portion. You cannot access the SSD part of the drive, or mount it any any way. Also, the SSD section has nothing to do with fragmentation - you should defrag the drive when defragmentation is high, the SSD will readjust automatically to any changes in your most frequently-accessed files/sectors.
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Hi ChrisL ... I have used many different drives with this device. SSD and normal 2.5 inch laptop drives... just plug it in, you do not need any casings or adapters... real "plug and play". Just be careful of what SSD you get.... I fried 2 OWC Mercury Electra SSD .... no refund (they didn't burned with this device, relax. The failed with original OWC casings while transferring large files...)
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This is not an SSD drive. It is still a standard hard drive. But what it has is that at boot up it has an SSD system that boots up. This is where it's a little faster than regular drives. Plus it memorizes your most used apps so it keeps them in memory in order to start them faster. This happens with usage.This in general without going into full technical details.
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The SSD portion of the drive is not a cache. It is static. What is written to the SSD portion is retained even when the power is off. The 64MB cache works on this drive just as it works on traditional hard drives. I've owned one of these drives for nearly two years. It is worth every penny. Just as it says, over time, it becomes faster as it reorganizes the most used software (including the OS) to the SSD.
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I have 2 SanDisk SSDs on my machine. I'm running WIN 7, 64bit. Did not have a problem with my Gen. Storage disk. Cabled up the 2nd disk, and "away" it went, no problems. It's a DELL machine.
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I don't know how hot the external rugged drives with traditional disk drives run, but these SSD drives don't get very hot. I have two of them, they get warmish if you are really pushing a lot of data in/out, but never hot. Pretty cool if left idle.