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Ditto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive

Ditto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
Incidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too. It’s enough to make me anxious between backups: at least with spinning rust-drives we can transplant the platters and controllers (separately, even!) while SSD hardware recovery is almost unheard of.
- andrekandre 5y ago
  thats interesting, its been the exact opposite for me... though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?
- genewitch 5y ago
  I keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!). I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing. I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power. That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.
prox 5y ago
Sounds like a plan, it’s actually cheaper in a sense. Today I saw my webhost had nextcloud one-click installs, that might be useful for those files you want accessible everywhere. I already pay for the space, so it doesn’t cost me extra.
theodric 5y ago
>assuming the emails you're sent won't also eventually result in the locking and banning of your Google account

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

Incidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too. It’s enough to make me anxious between backups: at least with spinning rust-drives we can transplant the platters and controllers (separately, even!) while SSD hardware recovery is almost unheard of.

andrekandre 5y ago
thats interesting, its been the exact opposite for me... though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?
genewitch 5y ago
I keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!). I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing. I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power. That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.

prox 5y ago

Sounds like a plan, it’s actually cheaper in a sense. Today I saw my webhost had nextcloud one-click installs, that might be useful for those files you want accessible everywhere. I already pay for the space, so it doesn’t cost me extra.

theodric 5y ago

>assuming the emails you're sent won't also eventually result in the locking and banning of your Google account