Ordered a 4TB SSD to replace my 8TB mechanical drive. No more noise or spinning up!
They are getting pretty cheap now. I will never need to buy mechanical again.
They are getting pretty cheap now. I will never need to buy mechanical again.
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Still backup the SSD every now and then. I generally keep two external drives, both cross copying to each other
Lost loads of photos years ago before online phone services/backups
Thanks, convinced me to replace an ageing mechanical second drive that has been misbehaving of late.
Been testing any I pull and have been placing them in my media server.
Have had a chip based drive go bad, I know there are recovery services available now, but a fried chip is proper dead.
Whereas an old school drive is much easier to recover, your data is there 0/1.
Many find this out when they delete a huge file or game, and it takes about 10 minutes to delete it :)
Of course it's still much faster then a old hhd in up times. But do check this spec out before you buy it!
But due to speeeeed, I've offloaded all spinnymathings to my NASes and Server.
But now, I realize much of it has to do with switching to SSDs vs clanky old mechanical drives. 🤔
I don't miss them. (But I check my SSD TBWs)
Determined I've got about 25+ or so years on this main 256gb at this pace. 😅 Especially since I store my data on larger externals.
I looked it up again, it was two models of HPE SAS SSDs, which bricked themselves after running for 40000 hours.
If a bug bricks all drives of the same make, and your RAID is all the same, the entire RAID dies at once, for example.
While AFAIK the HPE ones brick themselves *permanently* after 40k hours of operation, installing the firmware update afterwards doesn't unbrick them.
Is ssd reliable? Like forever. I know mechanical can be saved even if toasted, but is there a fix for ssd?