8-10 years ago is a very long time, especially for what was still a relatively new, low-volume product in the consumer market. > I assume they've improved in t

8-10 years ago is a very long time, especially for what was still a relatively new, low-volume product in the consumer market. > I assume they've improved in that regard, or are spinning platters still a safer proposition over the long term? I don't think you need to assume..just check out what statistics are out there. Sadly, I don't know of anyone publishing numbers for consumer SSDs like Backblaze does for spinning disks.