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Model A1419 / EMC 2806 / Late 2014 or Mid 2015. 3.3 or 3.5 GHz Core i5 or 4.0 GHz Core i7 (ID iMac15,1); EMC 2834 late 2015 / 3.3 or 3.5 GHz Core i5 or 4.0 GHz Core i7 (iMac17,1) All with Retina 5K displays

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How to tell if SSD needs replacing?

I have a late 2015 27” iMac with a 512gb SSD running Monterey that won’t boot up, but I can get into the recovery mode and access the emergency partition just fine. When I try repair or reformat the SSD nothing shows up in diskdocor. If I go into the terminal and enter “diskutil list” a bunch of partions and volumes show up.

Is there any way to determine if this is a SSD drive failure or just a software problem I have to figure out?

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Hi Map_guy,

While this does sound like a software problem ( I can't tell yet, as it has symptoms of a dying one, but also doesn't have much else from your account), I would advise you to try to restore a backup from time machine if you have one, or backup your existing data if possible to the cloud.

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