Minor disaster

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 5/19/25 9:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 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.

SMART diagnostics don't apply?  I did have a RAID1 HD fail a while back 
on my SAMBA server and was warned.  But those are regular HD, not SSD.  
Being RAID1, the 'fix' was straight-forward.