The Dead Disk Bounce: Does An SSD Get A Second Act?
My desktop PC is just now passing three years old. When it arrived I imaged the factory installed 2 TB hard drive, replacing it with a Crucial m4 256GB SSD
The boot time of the computer was improved by the SSD. Since the boot volume was just the OS & apps it was quick & easy to backup by making an image of that volume. The fact that I make routine backups became important recently, when the SSD failed outright.
In this case I had just installed some updated to the OS, when a reboot was required. However, upon rebooting the system could not find the boot volume.
After a couple of weeks of rumors from elsewhere today our Gigaset S675IP system announced the availability of a new firmware release.
Hereabouts we do love our Gigaset cordless phones. Actually, that’s overstating the case a bit. Recent firmware releases, notably the November & December issues, have proven to be troublesome for some users. It’s tempered our enthusiasm just a little. 
Since first posting about availability of the new