Signs of SSD Failure: Symptoms That Mean Back Up Now and Symptoms That Mean Stop Powering It On

[Joel Taylor]

Hard drives usually warn you before they fail. They click, grind, slow to a crawl or throw read errors for weeks. SSDs often don’t. A solid-state drive can work perfectly on Monday and be gone on Tuesday, or quietly switch itself into a mode where you can read your files but not save anything new. […]