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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by mig39 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:51PM (#29089187)
The plural of anecdotes is not data, but in my relatively small experience, I've had two SSDs die. And when they die, there's usually no warning.

One was a windows box with a generic Kingston 480GB.

The other was in a 2014 MacBook Air.

In both cases, both completely dead with no data recovery possible.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @08:23PM (#29089483)
I never liked those kingstons, thats too bad about the MacBook Air. What did you end up doing with it?
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by mig39 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:54PM (#29090611)
Just replaced the SSD with another one :-). My kid uses it now.
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