{"id":505,"date":"2014-02-26T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2024-03-25T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T19:59:26","slug":"apple-recall-macbook-air-models-with-defective-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/apple-recall-macbook-air-models-with-defective-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple recall MacBook Air models with defective SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some MacBook Air computers sold between June 2012 through June 2013 have a defective solid state drive (SSD) that potentially could fail leading to a data lose. Only a minority of computers with 64GB and 120GB SSD drives are affected by this defective. Since the fall Apple has offered to replace all affected drives free of charge including MacBook Air owners with no AppleCare Protection Plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been running Mountain Lion on my mid 2012 MacBook Air and decided not to upgrade to Mavericks until I had time to do a fresh install rather than upgrading Mountain Loin. When a new OS X is released it’s normally a good time to clean up completely and start from scratch. Doing a manual backup, installing the new OS X, installing all applications again and then reload the manual backup is time consuming and normally takes out a full day. I got time during this month and it turned out my 120GB SSD was having this defective. Part of installing Mavericks is upgrading the firmware and this upgrade cannot be done on an affected SSD so no Mavericks this time… Instead this message popped up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update could not update your drive. The firmware update tested your drive and confirmed it has an issue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A call to Apple confirmed that my Macbook Air needed a trip to the shop and my SSD has now been fixed. At first I was told that the SSD needed to be replaced but apparently they were able to fix the defective without replacing with a new SSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple has created a website for their MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program<\/a> with specific details about how to find out if the SSD is defective and how to get it replaced or repaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some MacBook Air computers sold between June 2012 through June 2013 have a defective solid state drive (SSD) that potentially could fail leading to a data lose. Only a minority of computers with 64GB and 120GB SSD drives are affected by this defective. Since the fall Apple has offered to replace all affected drives free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}