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MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

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Re: MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

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Post by quarterto » 

  We also recommend backing up your data on a regular basis until you receive a replacement drive.
Why stop there? With tools and services like Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and Crashplan, there's no excuse not to maintain a backup. As evidenced by this page, shit happens.

Re: MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

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Post by jnsaff2 »

quarterto wrote: post #3

We also recommend backing up your data on a regular basis until you receive a replacement drive. Why stop there? With tools and services like Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and Crashplan, there's no excuse not to maintain a backup. As evidenced by this page, shit happens .

Exactly my thought when reading this. From my experience as an Ops guy I can say that in my opinion all storage media is perishable.

And also that most friends know that they should back-up as when shit hits the platter the first thing they say is: "I know I should have backed up and my latest is from September last year, can you help me?"

At least with OSX, backups are made very easy for you via Time Machine and even better a Time Capsule.

Re: MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

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Post by ValentineC »

nwh wrote: post #5
m4tthumphrey wrote: post #4

Silly question probably, but why would the 256GB model (mine) be exempt?

Could be a completely different company and model of storage.

The drives that have been failing are the 64GB and 128GB Toshiba SSDs (TS064E and TS128E).
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