Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Labitt
<bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> This SSD was to be my carry around disk containing
> work I've done in the past as reference.  My brains so to speak.

  These days, the common thing to do is store such things "in the
cloud", i.e., on a server hosted by a third-party.  Or you could run a
server yourself.  Then you just need an Internet connection, and don't
have to worry about OS or hardware.  You may want to consider that
option.

> I guess a NAS is in my future.

  If the problem is a hardware failure with the disk, a NAS won't help
that (unless you get one with RAID or whatever, but even then, the NAS
controller itself could fail).

  If the problem is corruption of the filesystem due to software bug
or premature disconnect or the like, then a NAS would be an
improvement.

  However, in that case, you may also want to consider using an
external disk, but partitioned.  Make one partition NTFS, and use it
under Windows.  Make the other partition ext2/3/4/btrfs/whatever, and
use it under Linux.  Each OS gets to use its own, native filesystem.

-- Ben