> "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?" Can you tell the difference in "what if {HDD,SDD} suddenly dies and I loose everything?"? > Also, how muc

> "what if it suddenly dies and I loose everything?" Can you tell the difference in "what if {HDD,SDD} suddenly dies and I loose everything?"? > Also, how much is the average lifetime of a consumer-grade SSD these days? Years. Actually with all that TLC/QLC/xLC you can get even less than some old-time ones, but they are cheap and you can get much more than you need, so you will have plenty of resource to spare, ie if you have 250GBs of music - you can buy 1TB and have x4 'over-provision', if you have 1TB - buy 2TB or more. And as others said, music collection is basically WORM so you probably would have the problem of finding an ancient USB3 controller to attach your ancient USB->SATA/NVME external drive for your new shiny holodeck with USB23423 in 2042 than it to die on you.