![]() Plus, I could work on my 2012 13-inch MacBook Air during the lengthy restore process. ![]() I wasn’t terribly perturbed by all this, since I knew I had both a bootable duplicate from the night before and a Time Machine backup that had been working until I quit for the day, both on an external hard disk, not to mention Backblaze Internet backups. At some point in that process, I booted the iMac successfully again, just long enough for Watchman Monitoring to send an even more ominous warning. I could find no indication of what that error meant, but Apple’s support documentation was pretty clear about the next step being a reformat and restore. Another try (which took longer than it should have) failed with the same error. The next morning, however, I checked the iMac and discovered that First Aid had failed with an error -69842. That was concerning, so I finished what I was doing, restarted in macOS Recovery by rebooting while holding down Command-R, launched Disk Utility, started First Aid, went to make dinner, and promptly forgot about it. Then I received an email from Watchman Monitoring, an essential tool used by sysadmins and consultants to keep track of Macs under their care, telling me about disk errors on my 2014 27-inch iMac’s SSD. There it was, Wednesday evening, and I was working hard to finish something for the day. Six Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD ![]()
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