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my NVME died at upgrading stage to Monterey with my laptop Dell XPS 9570
Toshiba XG5 1TB NVMe, known as kxg50znv1t02 by Kioxia
Hey hey, sry to hear this.
Per observations of
@hardcorefs above, and my own experience, it seems that flash storage, especially NVMe, will be an ongoing pitfall. We have to assume Apple has its own measures and designs with only tangential regard for 'compatibility'. This would be a big concern except sun is setting on Apple as a PC.
OTOH, there's nothing much different about this stage of evolution reliability compared to other previous eras: SSD technology now works well and allows big performance gains over disks, which took decades to perfect and suffered routine epic failure. I've always been impressed at how accepting people are of catastrophic PC failure. They usually blame themselves and take a perverse joy in the experience, as if it's amazing. So there's nothing to complain about re SSD reliability in the big picture.
But with Apple's guidance, we are facing a big in the idea expoused by PC industry — and pursued by hackintosh hobbyists everywhere — that a reliable personal computer can be approached as a constellation of interchangeable parts. This idea is patently false. But who cares? The industry happens to not care at all because all the epic failure creates further demand which keeps production and incremental advances in motion. Failure (death) is good for you!
Today I will blather suggest the as the industrial revolution incrementally advanced over several centuries to produce the utter mayhem we call urban life, and a looming ecological crisis of our own fabrication, that as we move on, the personal computer may be causing a looming crisis of the mind. I will jump ahead a mile or so and observe that our inability to confront the nature of purpose of design is our greatest hazard, and therefore the greatest opportunity of sentience.
I have been surprised over my life too see Apple create a popular public engagement with computers as marvelous new creative gizmos, build an new empire based on style, lose it by leaning too far towards the taste fetish of the soft drink industry, fall to the point of near collapse in a roiling market of competition, then bounce back to supremacy at a level of prosperity that exceeds all previous human expectations. But what's weirdest of all is the societal region of Apple's headquarters, and the state of societies in general, are more fraught than ever. Whereas the long history of human calamity has traditionally been about a world of "natural forces", we now enter a new world where calamity is designed and apportioned, thanks to personal computers. It's at once wrecking us and saving us from its wreckage.
The hackintosh user is a peculiar creature in this new world, in that we prefer a coherency of design we can only get through tight central planning, but we want to feel more involved than the central planners prefer, even if it means far less reliable devices.
There's maybe a vague argument that the hackintosher seeks greater usefulness of his device, but to me not worth noting the details. We assemble PC parts-bin systems and boot a proprietary OS that is designed in every way to the intention to curtailing our freedom, because we feel it makes us freer!
Rather than being contradictory, I think there's some essential lesson in this that smashes the value of common sense. The gap between insanity and genius is eternally a strange space.
So
@ww7, did your drive die of natural causes?
Or is it one on a list of suspects that confirms a prejudice?
Or is it known to work but surprised you by dying anyway?
Did it catch on fire?
Clearly, everybody who has a computer has computer problems, which, if this site is an indication, are not only incredibly common, but also fun!
People always want to tell me about their computer problems and I always think "Did it catch on fire? No? Then you don't really have a problem. You have a normal computer."
Best of luck on future purchases.
