Comments on: Apple Recalls Mid-2012 MacBook Air For SSD Replacement – 64GB and 128GB SSD Systems Affected

By: Anthony Maw

Anthony Maw — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:28:00 +0000

It is a fundamental tenet of computer science that you should always have backups. All mass-storage is at risk of failure whether HDD or SSD albeit for different and multiple reasons. In that regard one can definitely enjoy the speed and performance benefit of SSD but with the caveat that one should invest in a sufficient capacity backup device like the Apple Time Capsule which is fast and reliable. Unfortunately most people never take into account the added cost of the backup solution but they are all to willing to pay the premium for SSD storage. A competent salesperson would always discuss the matter of backup solutions and backup monitoring with a customer considering SSD storage.

By: A+ TECH

A+ TECH — Sun, 18 May 2014 19:41:00 +0000

In reply to Les@TheSSDReview. Always have back ups aka Several like 2 or 3 min for anything you want to keep. FIPS Level 3 is nice encription! Read life expectancy, READ WRITE Speed, Reviews like AMazon ect. Tiger Direct are techs. Newegg has newest stuff usally. 1791.com is grate email! Apple had 2 security updates recently for HTTPS loophole for 18 months or so. Microsoft opens a port for them when you do an update. There are anonamus browsers. duckduckgo.com is an encripted search engine that don't track you. DEEP FREEZE is good software.

By: Fed Up with Apple

Fed Up with Apple — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 14:38:00 +0000

I bought an affected MacAirbook in an Apple store in LA in October 2012 and lost EVERYTHING – 10 years of business files, 700 photos from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the US – in the first week of use having installed Windows Parallel. Apple never even bothered to contact me about the fault. Can I claim damages?

By: John Reid

John Reid — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:17:00 +0000

Yes, data is stored on Flash based devices. These fail rather a lot more than people expect them to. On my work bench I can see numerous memory sticks, memory cards and SSD. We’ve already had SSD in from data centres running them in RAID. Then we get the owner telling us, “I thought these weren’t supposed to fail.”

The issue is that in a lot of cases they are significantly more challenging to recover data from than HDDs. Consequently the cost for certain types of Flash based recovery can get quite high.

Non-recovery can be due to a number of issues. Processors that encrypt is one, counterfeit processors/NAND is another. Then there is having to deal with Monolith chips with proprietary pin out configurations. The equipment that we use (AceLabs P3000 SSD & Softcenter) are unable to deal with many of these cases. This equipment is industry standard for Flash memory recovery, so there are some real limits as to what can be achieved.

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:18:00 +0000

In reply to John Reid.

I am sorry but we don’t allow self promotion, however, i did want to comment on the article which was titled, “Avoid SSDs for important files, says data recovery firm”.

IMHO, this is the easiest way to discredit oneself and to lose business. I am not sure if the author is aware, but just about everything you do…every character you type…onto the internet will go through an SSD at some point. Flash technology has changed our world and SSDs are seen In every data center worldwide and there isn’t a new data center built without flash technology. I understand if you would like to remain at the consumer level and might suggest the author compare hard drive failure to that of SSDs; he might be surprised. From a personal standpoint EVERY system we have is SSD equipped and every system that I personally use has been SSD equipped since 2007. Anyone who has similar experience can relate to just how much more frequent HDD failure was…