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SSDs are getting better and better, however it appears that if they die, they do without giving any hints, while HDs often send signals that if caught in time a

SSDs are getting better and better, however it appears that if they die, they do without giving any hints, while HDs often send signals that if caught in time allow to back up important things before they stop functioning (errors, slowness, noises and clicks etc.) That is not an excuse for not keeping updated backups, but tell this to the average Joe. My personal approach is this one: no probs with SSDs on my laptops as they don't contain data that is not already backed up elsewhere. On my NAS I use only HDs and plan not to change this for several years. On desktop machines there are two possibilities: either a boot SSD and homes+documents+etc. on a HD, or if space permits, everything on a SSD but a cron script will rsync important things regularly on a mirror HD.

gruez 5y ago
>SSDs are getting better and better, however it appears that if they die, they do without giving any hints Is this backed up by empirical evidence? I've heard of SSDs randomly dying, but I've also heard of SSDs going into read-only mode. Apparently for hard drives only 64% of failures can be predicted by SMART: >36% of failed drives did so without recording any S.M.A.R.T. error at all, except the temperature, meaning that S.M.A.R.T. data alone was of limited usefulness in anticipating failures.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
winternett 5y ago
Agreed. No drive is failproof when even accidental deleting can happen. The raw truth has always been the same... backups. Off site backups in addition to local backups... Cloud storage as well, back that thing up. Unless of course the files are not important.