Well he could have been backing up but if the ssd died those backups could have some bad blocks then in the tm's so that could have them corrupted
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Angry at OWC!
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Why are people talking about backing up?
The files were worked in CS5, saved, backed up to two other HD's for a total of three different folders. When I tried to open them the images said "the file may be truncated or incomplete" on the original and all the back ups.
I even called adobe but got someone who never heard of this issue.
OWC admited it was HD issue.
The files were worked in CS5, saved, backed up to two other HD's for a total of three different folders. When I tried to open them the images said "the file may be truncated or incomplete" on the original and all the back ups.
I even called adobe but got someone who never heard of this issue.
OWC admited it was HD issue.
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Sadly... Because when folks hear about lost work they immediately assume there was no backup strategy in place.
I'll say it again, this is not a case of SSDs are unreliable. It is well reported that Sandforce drives are unreliable. People should stop making generalizations.
Sorry to hear. Unfortunately, regardless of the brand or age of drive you are always going to get failures. Well it's all happened to us somehow or rather. Here's what some bad experiences taught me:
I would strongly recommend making a clone of your boot drive with apps so you just literally just have to drop it in and copy it to your new drive, or just use the clone if you need to get up and running straight away.
I would strongly recommend making a clone of your boot drive with apps so you just literally just have to drop it in and copy it to your new drive, or just use the clone if you need to get up and running straight away.
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This is why you have the option to back up your HDD with TIme Machine. So you won't have to redownload all apps, plug ins ect....
Unfortunately I have to agree - it's you
My 120GB OWC SSD runs well (only 8 months old though). However, I haven't had them service a machine and my only other experience with them was ram for years back.
SuperDuper! + Time Machine = never lose more than 1 hour and 15 minutes of work. 1 hour for Time Machine's back up intervals and 15 minutes of me getting up, being annoyed my drive died, getting more coffee, and booting from my SuperDuper! clone.
Sorry about your misfortune friend, Best!
Joel
** Edit: Samsung's 470 drives are being used (although a bit modified) in Macbook Airs. They are getting really good reliability reviews on Newegg and even claim Mac OSX compatibility in the product listing. They are just coming out with a Sata 6GB/s model next month. I'll be trying it out...
My 120GB OWC SSD runs well (only 8 months old though). However, I haven't had them service a machine and my only other experience with them was ram for years back.
SuperDuper! + Time Machine = never lose more than 1 hour and 15 minutes of work. 1 hour for Time Machine's back up intervals and 15 minutes of me getting up, being annoyed my drive died, getting more coffee, and booting from my SuperDuper! clone.
Sorry about your misfortune friend, Best!
Joel
** Edit: Samsung's 470 drives are being used (although a bit modified) in Macbook Airs. They are getting really good reliability reviews on Newegg and even claim Mac OSX compatibility in the product listing. They are just coming out with a Sata 6GB/s model next month. I'll be trying it out...
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Sorry, buddy, it's you. Hardware failures happen; even though OWC has a good historic record, there's always the chance. That's why people have backup strategies. I'd suggest picking up an external drive for Time Machine. This, after-all, is why Time Machine exists. Sorry you had to learn the lesson this way. Hopefully you won't let it happen again.
Hopefully you won't let it happen again.Sorry, buddy, it's you. Hardware failures happen; even though OWC has a good historic record, there's always the chance. That's why people have backup strategies. I'd suggest picking up an external drive for Time Machine. This, after-all, is why Time Machine exists. Sorry you had to learn the lesson this way.
Except time machine wouldn't have helped him much, the HD was corrupting on saving so anything backed up would also have been corrupted.
Just you. My stuff has always been great.
Also when using an SSD, its important to know that even though they are fast, they tend to not have quite the same reliability track record of a regular drive. For some, the tradeoff is worth it but always back up your important stuff to something like Dropbox. Its what I do on my Air which runs an SSD.
I'll keep my working project in my Dropbox folder and work from there. Once its finished then I archive it on my desktop, and its multiple externals. I'd suggest doing something like this in the future, it will save you a lot of headache down the road.
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This kind of comment is out of place.
Sounds like you are the kind of person who blames a person for getting the flu.
Blamers. Are. Yucky.
I understood the OP to mean "Is it just my experience? Or does everyone else have problems with OWC" not whether it is his fault that the situation happened or not.
Depending on frequency of backups, he might have been able to move back to a version that would actually be usable. The RAID of course did its job and copied the corrupted data over to the other drives...the only thing that would've helped him here would have been a timely backup.
This whole situation sucks for the OP. Hope he doesn't lose too much time getting back up and running.
Sounds typical of Sandforce based SSD products and many experiences noted over on countless NewEgg end user reviews.Setup and have a constant time machine backup set to grab updates at least every hour at a minimum.
Have been running a serious development environment for developing iOS games on a Samsung 470 SSD for almost 6 months and have not seen one hiccup. I'll run Xcode, iOS Simulator, Parallels, VM Ware fusion, Photoshop, outlook, safari, and have yet to see one issue pop up on the Samsung 470. It's fast enough and super reliable.
Good Luck!
Because you didn't mention that in the original post.
Because it's a good reminder to all the other readers of this thread even if you did back up.
Because it furthers the discussion of how backing up doesn't work well when the source is corrupt, as in your case.
It's always sad to hear something like this happening ... even more sad when there was actual back-up plan. Overriding good back-up with bad data always worries me and so far only think one can do is timely back-ups. But then again, how much room one would need to stay safe.
There are many scripts for rotating back-ups. In this case it might have made little difference tho.
Cheers, R>
There are many scripts for rotating back-ups. In this case it might have made little difference tho.
Cheers, R>
Agree with this. No electronics are perfect. OWC didn't sell you a bad drive on purpose. If something is so important, use realtime backup like carbonite.
I have bought a few thousand dollars of items from OWC and am always a happy customer. Even when I get something that is bad, because they replace it.
I have bought a few thousand dollars of items from OWC and am always a happy customer. Even when I get something that is bad, because they replace it.
I'm on my second OWC 120GB SSD drive and so far it is very stable. I returned the first one after 6-7 months of random problems with diags finally getting error codes on it. Frustrating time. OWC was very good about returning it though and I have bought a lot of other things from them with no problems.
This was my first time using the technology so I limited it to just my OS boot disk with LR/PS cache. Given my initial experience with it I think I'll keep it that way. Hopefully the newer generations become more reliable. All my photos are still on RAID protected work and backup arrays plus external archive drives that I switch offsite.
This was my first time using the technology so I limited it to just my OS boot disk with LR/PS cache. Given my initial experience with it I think I'll keep it that way. Hopefully the newer generations become more reliable. All my photos are still on RAID protected work and backup arrays plus external archive drives that I switch offsite.
I have purchased 2 items that I can remember from OWC. A 240GB SSD for my mac pro (along with a 3.5" to 2.5" adapter), and an upgrade to 8GB for my Mac Book Pro. So far, lucky with no issues. But the SSD is only 3 months old.
In my case, a SSD is nice where disk seeks isn't the limiting factor when booting up.
In my case, a SSD is nice where disk seeks isn't the limiting factor when booting up.