Minor disaster

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 07:57 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ah, yes, of course. The latest advancements in modern technology:
> hardware with a built-in suicide clock.

In my experience, SSDs last much longer than any HDD with daily use. The
downside for us Linux users is that we have virtually no way to reliably
check the health status of almost all SSDs. I originally bought some for
which the manufacturer offered Linux software, but they last already
longer than any HDD I've ever used on a daily basis, and the
manufacturer has discontinued Linux support. The only disadvantage SSDs
have over HDDs happens when they are not used daily. HDDs for archiving
last forever, SDDs maybe too, but they eventually lose the data if they
are not used. Most of my SSDs are already very old, I've never had one
break, but one or two are probably nearing the end and unlike HDDs, I
don't know of any signs that might herald this. HDDs like to give
themselves away acoustically before they fail.