apt full-upgrade causes system lock-up

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

yes, all gear can die. SSDrives are no exceptions.

However, in my years of experiences with HDDrives and SSDrives, a lot of
HDDrives already died, but no SSD ever suffered from an issue. Actually
the only reason for me to replace SSDrives is the size. My old SSDrives
are too small, I replace one after the other by larger ones. Even
"normal" used drives older than 5 years report a health status > 50%.
Note, I only use SSDrives as extrenal backup media. All internal drives
are SSD. Due to the small size of my older SSDrives they can't do
much wear leveling tricks. Since no HDDrives are used by my machines,
the SSDrives aren't touched with kid gloves. IOW the SSDrives are used
for everything, no directory is outsourced to a HDD.

The SSDrives I'm using are all SATA drives from Toshiba/OCZ/KIOXIA. IOW
the SSDrives are cheap ones, they aren't "special" expensive drives.

In my experiences a "normal" workload used HDD does last for around 2
years. Yes, I know, some of you are using HDDs for way longer than 2
years. So do I, some of my backup drives are quite old and even one or
the other HDD used under "normal" workload became around 7 years old.
The point is, for the same kind of usage I made better experiences with
SSDrives. For my kind of usage HDDrives can't compete with SSDrives.
FWIW the HDD's heads were rarely parked, but usually it was the
releasing of the heads that stopped working.

Résumé

In my experiences daily used SSDrives are way more reliable and last
longer than daily used HDDrives.

YMMV!
Ralf