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Recently, an acquaintance mentioned that a backup drive containing essential work data had failed. They noted the drive had become "painfully slow" before dying completely, adding that the device had always been sluggish and unreliable.
Just what you want from a storage drive.
Modern storage drives are reliable, right?
Since they didn't live too far, I suggested they drop it off. I'd take a look at it and see if I can recover the lost data.
After all, modern storage drives are quite reliable, and most of the time, when they go funny, it's because of some file structure glitch.
I was hopeful -- right up until the moment I saw the drive.
Oh no! Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET
According to the printing on the drive, it was a "Moblle Sdud State" SSD.
LOL
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