70 Mill this coming Tuesday, that should cover those recovery costsOriginally Posted by axle01
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70 Mill this coming Tuesday, that should cover those recovery costs
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Yes,,,,thanks mate.
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Yeah but he’ll want payment Monday, wonder if he’ll take credit till Wednesday morning.70 Mill this coming Tuesday, that should cover those recovery costs
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Can i just ask what brand ssd was put in? by the sounds of it seems like it was faulty from factory and would have warrenty more so it may have been a refurb one that was close to giving up the ghost.
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Hmmm never thought of that, I really don’t know the brand but I’ll find out more tomorrow, I’ll definitely ask that question.
Al
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Well good news bad news, the SSD is new and not faulty.
He recovered all my photos all 182647 of them but everything else has gone all the websites I had saved to favourites so I’ll have to reload all of them again also everything else like programs etc I’ve purchased over the years, all gone.
Only cost $280 so I probably won’t need to win the lotto tomorrow night.
Oh all the photos are in one folder now so I will have to sort them into their respective folders which may take a while.
Al
Last edited by axle01; 17-06-2019 at 3:34pm.
Well, at least...!
Yeah, the price... neither good nor bad. Typical.
So, good to hear. Now, can you chase up any wty on the drives?
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That is good news and the price is not to bad either
The rest will keep you busy...
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Not worth the trouble, just cop it on the chin and move on.
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Yeah it will take me many hours to sort through them.That is good news and the price is not to bad either
The rest will keep you busy...
Al
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The situation you've experienced kind'a makes no sense.
SSDs don't usually fail.
About the only thing I could think of (quickly) is that the main index, that the operating system uses(in this case Mac), may have become corrupted or overwritten in some way.
Even that situation is very unlikely, UNIX has many measures to ensure even if it's tampered with, there are systems in place that allow easy recovery.
You don't need an expert to do that.
If it had been a mechanical HDD(ie a spinning disk), then a mechanical problem would give the illusion of 'data loss' .. the data is more than likely in place, just that a mechanical issue has stopped the drive from locating it.
I'd say more likely the situation you experienced is that a major chip that controls data flow on the mainboard has failed, and it seems like data loss or a failed hard drive.
For an SSD to have partial data loss is extremely unlikely .. other than accidental data loss(as explained above) due to some form of user error.
ie. if SSD was new and not faulty, you could have placed it into any other iMac 27" of the same physical configuration, and it'd have booted up just as tho nothing had changed.
You would have lost nothing.
So I can't understand why you lost anything at all!
I've done the above on my computers many times over .. and over .. and over again.
I'm curious as to where you took the computer/SSD to get it fixed.
More importantly!!! .. have they told you what the cause of the data issue was?
ie. was it the computer itself?
Sounds like either an onboard chip(I don't know what type/brand/models that Apple uses) that is failing occasionally. It happens. I've had a few.
Other possible causes for what seems like data loss, could be voltage regulators(on the motherboard).
The devices are on the mainboard, not user workable, require very specialised tools to fix/repair/replace.
Can you itemise what this data recovery place has done for you?
eg. did you take the computer to them to fix it sort it, check it and recover and stuff like that?
If you haven't taken the computer to get it checked, do you have any place to do that?
I'm fearing(for you) that it's a hardware related(as above .. mainboard) issue, and that it sounds very likely that it may happen again.
Like I said, what you've described so far makes little sense .. in a logical manner .. in that if an SSD loses data, it will usually totally fail and the data is basically gone forever.
Unless you have more than the 40mil Tatts had on offer recently, kiss lost SSD data goodbye if that ever happens.
But keep in mind, with SSD data it's all(data lost) or nothing(no data loss) ... usually its nothing(as in SSDs very rarely fail).
So if you find yourself in a similar situation again soon, get the Mac looked at.
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Arthur I’ve read your post a couple of times and I’m partially understanding what you’re saying, I am a complete knob when it comes to computers.
The tech first came to my house to fix the computer then took it to his shop to fix it, when he returned it after a couple of weeks he explained what had happened to it but because of the language barrier (Indian) I had a real problem understanding him, honestly I was just glad to have it back and all my photos, the other stuff that has gone can be replaced.
Thank you for your response I appreciate it, I will cop it on the chin and move on making sure that I have the backup in place, actually two backups.
Al
AK. That's an interesting dissertation
Last edited by ameerat42; 18-06-2019 at 3:48pm. Reason: Working with a stupid iPad...
Basicly what they mean is where the base system you see as the user has had something happen that allowed it to basicly erase and rewrite the base system, think of data storage like a pencil where you write down things in this case a string of data and the erase and white out where you can cover over some of the data string and write some new data to that section with the main index like the index in the book to the location of the data string.
That's fantastic news. However, I agree with AK, that it's really weird that all your other data was lost.
I do not trust SSDs for permanent storage. When they fail, they usually fail catastrophically.
HDDs mostly fail gracefully (i.e. over a period of weeks/months), and all data can usually be recovered, along with the original file/folder structures. BIG HDDs are also cheap, even high quality ones. I have multiple units over 2TBs each. Some powered, some portables.
Now might be the time to KEYWORD all your files ...
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