Fair warning – we just lost a less than one year old Western Digital Blue 2TB solid-state drive.
The entire drive was wiped out.
Following the disaster, we read the fine print of CCleaner and its specifically says not to use the app on SSD drives. Apparently, a high level of read writes to a SSD drive wipes them out.
After recovering the system, we ran Wondershare Recoverit to try to recover the files on the damaged drive. The result was the identification of 1,647,965 “damaged files”. And essentially none of the damaged files were recoverable. We recovered our data files from external backup.
It had been our practice to use laplink’s PCmover Ultimate each time we replace an aging workstation with a new PC. The result was we transferred an incredible amount of garbage – some of the dating back nearly 20 years – to the new machine.
We replaced the damaged drive with another Western Digital Blue 2TB SSD that we had on the shelf and recovered the operating system using HP’s recovery software. We then updated Windows 10 and installed all of the software that we use from the original CDs.
We are now awaiting the delivery of a new WD Black 2TB Performance SATA hard drive. Once it arrives, we will mirror the current SSD C drive onto the new SATA drive and then replace the SSD with the replacement drive.
In our situation, SSD drives simply do not hold up.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?