drives more drives

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2025-06-18 at 06:45 -0400, bruce wrote:
> Have you seen this. Thoughts on good or bad. Are ssd able to run for
> years with essentially no issues?.  Doing the research on this, but
> wanted more thoughts as well.

I've had laptops that lasted years with the same SSD drives and no
failures. My son has a PC with an SSD drive that's had to be replaced
twice in two years. Your mileage, as they say, may vary. I replaced
some NAS HDDs last year that had been spinning non-stop for nine years
and only replaced them because I needed bigger ones. They went to a
colleague who wanted to build his own NAS for fun, and as far as I know
they are still spinning. Those four were from of a set of six purchased
in one order - of the other two, one died within six months, the other
after three years (just days out of warranty). So again, your mileage
may vary.

SSD (and other solid state variants like M.2, NVMe etc) are all without
doubt faster than any HDD, but my feeling and I think the general
consensus is that they are not as reliable. And when they go, recovery,
even of partial data, is often impossible.

So for any purpose where great reliability is not a key issue, go solid
state for the speed - but keep the receipts and keep good backups :-)
IMHO good backups are on magnetic media and/or multiple media with at
least one copy off-site and/or encrypted in the cloud.

As far as USB speed, there are the marketing claims and there is
reality. If USB transfer speed is important to you, trust no USB hub +
USB device combination until you have tested it.

Regards, K.

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