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> while SSD (also usually) die abruptly without giving any warnings or leaving time for recovering files I had SSDs dying gradually and HDDs dying abruptly too
by the8472 5y ago
> while SSD (also usually) die abruptly without giving any warnings or leaving time for recovering files
I had SSDs dying gradually and HDDs dying abruptly too. I think this is just the difference between the controller hardware failing or the firmware encountering some unrecoverable condition vs. failure of the storage medium.
That said, there still is the difference that HDDs retain data much longer, flash cells leak charge over time. So for long-term storage HDDs are still a little better, but "long" here means many years, so you're still in the domain where you're risking age-related failure, redundancy will be required either way.
- willis936 5y agoIf the SSD is in a computer that's kept on: just schedule an AV scan for once a month. If you don't write to it and it's kept at a constant and low temperature/humidity and it doesn't get jostled then the data will probably outlast you.
- Santosh83 5y agoWhy jostled? I thought one of the bigger selling points of SSD is that they have no moving parts that can be damaged by abrupt movement?
- willis936 5y agoMechanical failure is very common on PCBs, especially ones with thousands of solder pads and aging solder joints. I keep a plastic lap pad under my laptop when carrying it around horizontally. I see people just letting the whole torque of the laptop bend the motherboard and it hurts me. Those laptops will one day not POST because the CPU, RAM, or GPU will have a pad lifted off the PCB.
- KozmoNau7 5y agoThe Thinkpad T40 series was notorious for this, the chassis is relatively flexible, so the GPU would eventually let go of the mainboard.