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Adventures in troubleshooting: Replacing a MacBook Air's faulty SSD

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The first time my MacBook Air crashed on wake, I didn’t think much of it.</p><p>
But after about the fourth or fifth time within a couple weeks, I started getting concerned. Not only did it seem to crash a goodly fraction of the time I woke it up (sometimes with a black screen, sometimes with a spinning beachball, other times with a frozen login box), but on first restart it started giving me the dreaded folder with a blinking question mark (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1440?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US).</p><p>
Not good.</p><p>
I tried Apple’s suggestions for combatting that issue: resetting the NVRAM (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379)—where your Mac stores many of its settings when it’s off—and the System Management Controller (SMC) (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964), but no solution ever seemed to take. It might offer a day or two’s worth of respite, but just as often it was right back to the same old problem. I repaired my disk—and my disk permissions—and ran the meager diagnostics accessible via the Apple Hardware Test (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509). Everything claimed the system was working fine.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2096800/adventures-in-troubleshooting-replacing-a-macbook-airs-faulty-ssd.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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