Why Mac users should also clone Solid State Drive?

SSD drives are superior to traditional hard drives with relatively faster data transfer and access speed. SSDs are more reliable and are less prone to damage than conventional hard drives but all these advantages adds few more dollars ($$) to its cost. Yes, SSDs are way costly than traditional drives which might be the straight reason of not opting the solid state drives for many Mac users. The reason why SSDs have an edge over other hard drives is the use of semi-conductor chips instead of magnetic media which also make SSDs to consume less power.

Despite of many advantages an SSD holds, it’s still not evitable from data loss. The data statistics represents that many users who never imagined of data loss on SSDs, actually became victims. The Solid State Drives became prey to the data loss either due to their system area corruption, physical errors, file corruptions or human errors. These errors opened up the weaknesses of SSDs and experts reported that data recoveries from such drives are more complicated as compared to traditional drives.

The Death of a SSD: At first, it could be hard to digest to read about a SSD’s death but let’s trust the sources and believe that this nightmare had occurred many times in the past to several Mac owners.  The death of a SSD proves to be harmful as the data stored on it could suddenly become inaccessible to the user. And not only the data but a heavy cost incurred in the SSD also seems to be wasted. After an experience like this, choosing for another SSD could prove to be costly and obvious choice is to locate for a data recovery services which deal in SSD recovery.

How to create SSD back-up: Even the smartest machine on the planet could not avoid failures so why create a stereotype that SSDs are invincible even when cases of failures are being reported? To create a back-up of the SSD, we would suggest using traditional method of creating a replica of the drive through hard drive cloning process. Cloning still remains a trusted source of back-up which can prove to be of great importance in case the source drives fails to perform its function. The most common use of the clone drive is to boot the system when the main hard drive is corrupted.

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Oliver Powell

Oliver Powell is a Data Recovery Expert at Stellar®. He is a passionate technology blogger & content creator, He explores new applications and has deep understanding of data recovery. He has experience in Windows & Mac data recovery domain.