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Solares:

I work in IT - we upgrade Windows and Mac computers.

I am not an electronics expert.

However, I have noticed very interesting trend.

We get in old systems to upgrade to SSD. Previously, they would have been using spinning mechanical hard disks. So, it might be an Windows desktop PC or an iMac for example. The systems would be performing terribly slow. We put in a new SSD and the system is given a new lease of life. Where once the operating system and applications would run painfully slowly - after the SSD upgrade, they would run really fast.

However, anywhere from 3 to 6 months later, the motherboard would just fail on these systems. Not all of them, but about 30 per cent of them.

My hypothesis: It's as if the system was used to operating at a slow speed all it's life. With an SSD the electronic components get a shock, can no longer handle the speed and the motherboard fails because of overstress.

Sorry for being over simplistic here. But does anybody have any theories on why this happens?

(But please don't state the bleeding obvious by saying "they're old systems anyway")

Manul:
How the motherboards fail? Have you tried to pinpoint what exactly fails? Because just to say that it "fails" is very abstract.

Monkeh:

--- Quote from: Solares on June 12, 2021, 02:38:53 pm ---(But please don't state the bleeding obvious by saying "they're old systems anyway")

--- End quote ---

I'm not sorry, I'm going to.

How old are these machines? Of what sort of quality are they? (and don't say 'oh, well some are Macs' - they're not special.)

bdunham7:
I've converted enough (mostly laptops) systems to know that I don't have a 30% failure rate with quite a high confidence interval.  Actually, I've never had one over maybe a dozen such conversions as well as custom builds.  What OS ends up on these systems and how does the motherboard 'fail'?  Other than the capacitor plague and an occasional physical mishap, I haven't seen many failed motherboards.  Of course, I don't work on very many Apple products.

kripton2035:
I do the same job, but mainly on macs.I installed ssd in macs computers for 10 years or so. 1 to 10 per week.
my 2 co-workers do almost the same amount of installations.
only a few ssd failed ( max 5 I can remember) and no motherboard died (except 2011 imac with known graphic card problems)
I used mainly samsung ssd may be it's the reason ?

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