Q: All of my friends who are using MBA mid-2012 have SSD failures.
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Sep 13, 2013 1:44 PMby jhcj,128GB SSD with Macbook Air mid-2012 here as well. Just up and died 2 months out of warranty.
The "MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.0" [http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1655] which Apple pulled at an unknown date seems mighty suspicious. I'd wager everyone with the SSD issue updated their firmware in the last few months.
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Sep 13, 2013 10:22 PMby YuriJJ,jhcj wrote:
The "MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.0" [http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1655] which Apple pulled at an unknown date seems mighty suspicious. I'd wager everyone with the SSD issue updated their firmware in the last few months.
Looks like that!
I have Revision TPVABBF0 before my SSD died.
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Sep 14, 2013 11:44 PMby bongzki_02,I also encountered the same problem in my MBA mid-2012. It crashed all in a sudden. Trying to perform internet recovery, the disk cannot be detected anymore. Mine is also out of warranty by 4 weeks. But Apple extended the warranty for one time repair. Now I am waiting for my MBA SSD to be replaced.
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Sep 16, 2013 3:26 AMby beavery,Hi All,
I would like to update the latest status of my MBA mid-2012.
After reading through all the posts here, I made a call to the Apple Hotline again and explain my issue. I also mentioned about this topic. The person on the phone asked me to send my MBA to the service shop to confirm again if It's the SSD failure. He gave me his name so I would have to call back him once the investigation is done.
I went to the service shop. The guy confirmed that It's the SSD failure. I called back to the hotline. Finally, they gave me free of charge to change the SSD.
Thanks everyone here for sharing your cases. They are very helpful.
For the people here who are still thinking that the SSD failure is a rare case, please go and talk to any Apple service providers, you will found that there are many failures happened to MBA-2012. SSD is out of stock every places here in Bangkok as well as some other countries.
PS. my case is about 1 month out of warranty.
Regards,
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Sep 16, 2013 12:04 PMby Y_HB,Very common issue in South Korea too for 2012 MacBook Air with 128GB SSD (Toshiba ones as most 128GB models carry those. Some reported having Samsung or Sandisk but those users are not facing any problem yet)
Mine died a week before my warranty ended and my friend's one did a week after the warranty expired but apple let her get AppleCare and got it repaired but it took really long time. (Delay & Lack of supply for 128GB SSD worldwide)
When I posted this issue on one of Korean Mac forum, lots of people also reported the same issue too.
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Sep 17, 2013 5:45 AMby bobhurree,I got the same issue yesterday on my 13' MBA Mid-2012 purchased December 2012
Was working when it just freezed and restarted with the question mark folder that appeared and when check with Disk Utility, SSD of 32k only in list.
Fortunately still on warranty but had to left it in store.
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Sep 17, 2013 5:48 AMby bobhurree,I got the same issue yesterday on my 13' MBA Mid-2012 purchased December 2012
Was working when it just freezed and restarted with the question mark folder that appeared and when check with Disk Utility, SSD of 32k only in list.
Fortunately still on warranty but had to left it in store.
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Sep 21, 2013 6:11 AMby Pedrosomaloco,For the ones who still think it is not a widespread problem, one more here!
Mine failed this week (monday)! Exactely the same: mac freezes, force shut down, when turning on i get the question mark of death, can`t internet recover because disk utility doesn`t show my SSD.
My luck is that mine was still in warranty (until november 11).
It really seems that lots of problems like this are starting to surface now, my guess is apple will make a recall for the sake of their name.So, do you think it was because of the new firmware??
I am from Brasil, the guy from the apple service store told me I would get my Mac back in 10-12 days.. I hope we don `t have a shortage of SSDs here in Brasil, like in South Korea and Thailand!!
Anyways, I already bought an external wireless HD to make regular time machine backups. I lost TOOOO MANY important documents because of this .
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Sep 22, 2013 5:23 PMby quangdx-asobitech,I'm starting to agree with you that it's linked to the pulled firmware upgrade.
I made a video with a bit of a work around as I wait for a replacement drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LEykaS7Iw -
Sep 25, 2013 12:25 PMby wbclark54,Has it been fixed yet? Mine has been out of comission for 11 days now with the same story of the part being on backorder. Very upset after finding multiple discussions of the SSD shortage and long repair times. I use mine for both work and personal, and on the road all the time. I do have the AppleCare warranty, but not like it does me any good if they can't fix it.
