Unlike the traditional hard disk drive, solid state drive is immune from mechanical issues. But it still can fail. This article will tell the 5 most common reasons that can cause solid state drive failures.
As we all know, one of the biggest differences between traditional hard disk drive and solid state drive is that the latter has no moving parts, which are vulnerable. Therefore, solid state drive is exempt from mechanical issues. But even so, it does not mean that this kind of drive is totally flawless. It still can fail and then cause data loss. Thus, if you are using a solid state drive for data storage, you still need to make regular data backups, which will help a lot in the event of data loss. For example, as long as you back up your Outlook PST files, even if your solid state drive corrupts, you still can recover damaged Outlook PST data from the backups with utmost ease.
Unquestionably, you must be reluctant to encounter solid state drive failures. So you will need to learn how to combat it. The first step to fight against it is figuring out its causes. Here are the 5 most common ones.
1. Physical Faults with Drive Components
Though a solid state drive doesn’t have any moving parts, which are vulnerable, it still can suffer physical faults with its components. Most of them may come from the manufacturer’s faults. For the solid state drive in poor quality, such as with shoddy manufacture in the soldered parts, it will be more susceptible to break or its connections will be more prone to get oxidized. These symptoms can result in electronic failures in the drive and then render drive failures.
2. Data Corruption within Solid State Drive
Apart from the physical faults, solid state drive can suffer logical issues, such as data corruptions in it. For instance, your data may get infected or corrupted due to viruses, malware or bad sectors in the drive. In this case, data corruption will damage some segments of the solid state drive and finally lead to data loss.
3. Drive Damage from Water or Heavy Blow
A lot of external factors can cause solid state drive failures as well. The top 2 are water and heavy blow respectively. Like traditional hard disk drive, a solid state drive is also prone to such damages. Just imagine it. If you pour any liquids on the drive, its components will surely damage. What’s more, if you drop or knock the drive heavily, the consequences will be quite terrible, too.
4. Short Circuits in Solid State Drive
Different from standard magnetic hard disk drive, solid state drive considerably relies on power in that it is totally made up by electronics. Hence, if a solid state drive suffers power failures, no matter power outages or power surges, the drive will get into the danger of short circuits, which can destroy the data in a flash.
5. Drive Firmware Upgrade Failure
At times, your solid state drive may be required to upgrade its firmware so as to improve its performance. In the upgrade process, you ought to keep cautious all the time. Otherwise, once the firmware upgrade is interrupted or fails for other reasons, the solid state drive will suffer too. It will stop working promptly.
Author Introduction:
Shirley Zhang is a data recovery expert in DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including repair corrupt SQL mdf db and outlook repair software products. For more information visit www.datanumen.com
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