continuing disk crash issue

[Owen Thomas]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 at 01:37, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> The context. People want SSDs for mobile devices and desktop computers,
> but HDDs for archiving, as longer unused SSDs lose the data, and the
> prices for these HDDs are not falling. I don't know anything about
> laptop HDD prices.
>

A few general observations I would like to make are that I recently
purchased a set of three 32G USB sticks for backups (only needed one, but
they came in sets of three), and found that each of them lasted for about
two weeks before I couldn't read them any more. I thought: yea, they
probably came from a bad batch. I talked to someone about this and he
recommended that I get some spinning rust because of its reliability and
size, However, being that 32G was more than enough for my indulgence, I'm
not sure that I know what to do with something like 16T, and so I couldn't
justify the cost.

So, what I read here is more confirmation about this phenomenon although I
more recently (about two months ago) seem to have found a solution to my
problem by purchasing a 128G stick and I haven't experienced any problems
so far. I noticed that the 32G sticks were not metallic, while the 128G one
was. Perhaps (just a stab) this might be a reason for the reliability
problems?

Anyway these observations might provide further stimulation to this
discussion and that might inform me yet again.

  Owen.
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