What to do if the SSD fails

[Dave159]

Hi all,

I'm considering weather to include a SSD in my system.
I was wondering, if the SSD fails would that mean installing
everything from scratch on the hard disk?


The following is my current selection.
But things could change from suggestions from forum members.

Case.
The Coolermaster Sileo 500 Super Quiet Case.

Processor.
Intel Core i7-2600. Hope to change to an Ivy bridge. Would a 6 core processor be faster with rendering apps?.

Motherboard.
ASUS P8Z68-V LX.

Memory.
16GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz.

Graphics Card.
2GB GEFORCE GTX560 Ti. This is not in the Nvidia list on there site. Why not?

Hard disk.
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK.

Optical drive.
12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£88).

Power Supply.
600W Quiet 80PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan.

Processor Cooling.
SUPER QUIET 22dBA COOLER. As I need this for music creation I'm also considering water cooling
to reduce noise. But does it actually reduce the noise? or may be I
would'nt need it.

Sound card.
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.

OS.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit. Is the system disk supplied with a new PC?



Thanks, Very much appreciate any help or comments.

Dave http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/images/icons/icon7.png

 

[Rakk]

I'm considering weather to include a SSD in my system.
I was wondering, if the SSD fails would that mean installing
everything from scratch on the hard disk?

It would indeed mean reinstalling many things from scratch, but then , if you got a normal hard drive and it failed the same would apply.

 

[vanthus]

You can make a system image backup with windows7 own program in "backup and restore",
using either a second internal or an external hard drive to store the backup,
you can also schedule this to make incremental backups.
I've had two hard drives fail on me in the past year & using this method have succesfully restored my system to the replacement drive exactly as it was.

 

[Dave159]

Rakk, Thanks for responding.


Is the system disk supplied with a new PC? or is it a recovery disk.

Dave

 

[Dave159]

vanthus do you mean two SSDs have failed?

I've used computers since 1980 and have never had a conventional hard disk fail.

Dave

 

[vanthus]

vanthus do you mean two SSDs have failed?

I've used computers since 1980 and have never had a conventional hard disk fail.

Dave

No,they were HDD's,just unlucky,drives can fail any time,
thats why you should back them up.
Backing up an SSD should be no different.