Flash/SSD failures data recovery?

[jeremy123]

After having recently "burnt out"- said the "data recovery expert", my 25$ "cruzer" flash drive, being left with 0 data; I ask are there any ideas or new technologies in store for being able to suppress power surges on flash/SSD drives?

Will SSD's ever really be reliable? OR more likely just for booting?

Thanks, JL

 

[boomhower]

You make a good point that people need to pay attention to. With flash memory data back-ups are just as important with SSD's as they are with mechanical discs. They may be more robust but they can and will fail. I imagine it would be more difficult to recover the data of an SSD.

 

[taltamir]

a pen drive is not the same as a hard drive... also why the hell did you have a power surge on a USB port?

 

[Mark R]

I've destroyed several USB drives due to static.

Reach down to plug in the stick. See/feel static spark. Result = drive dead.

 

[jeremy123]

I'm told buy the recovery service that USB's come in all the time. And told that often laptops seems to have less than clean power to the stick. Mine burnt out on a Thinkpad X60 with no warning and for no reason.

I certainly hope people don't rely on these as their main drive. Unless someone can make data recovery a stronger possibility.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: jeremy123
I'm told buy the recovery service that USB's come in all the time. And told that often laptops seems to have less than clean power to the stick. Mine burnt out on a Thinkpad X60 with no warning and for no reason.

I certainly hope people don't rely on these as their main drive. Unless someone can make data recovery a stronger possibility.

My DELL X200 (circa 2002) would burn thru thumbdrives like they were DDR2 set on 2.6V power supply. It was always the cheap freebie thimbdrives that it killed though, my expense corsair voyager didn't have problems with 4yrs of use, so I assumed those freebie ones (vendor reps, trade shows, etc) were just a little too cheap and were missing one too many voltage isolation filters or some such.

 

[n7]

I dunno...

I've had one of my USD drives just die on me.

Day before; it worked perfectly.
Next day, completely dead.
Likely static or something, but i never noticed anything.

I've had numerous customers' drives as well where for them it worked great one day, & then just dead the next, & on all brands...cheap & expensive ones...

 

[jeremy123]

N7,

Thanks for speaking up on this. Do you think the same is true of SSD's? Or is there something fundamentally different about them that allows more stability. Also is there any current or new technologies on the horizon that might be able to make data actually recoverable in the future? Could be a real backlash eventually as now there are probably only 2% market for these...

 

[Yellowbeard]

I cannot yet comment on SSDs as I have not studied them enough. However, they do appear to have a far superior casing to any flash drive with the possible exception of our Survivors.

But, what concerns me is how many people I see carrying what they refer to as "critical data" on USB drives without having a backup. If your data is critical, back it up in a fundamentally safe manner and NOT on portable media. No portable media meets proper standards for backing up truely critical data.