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Copying a file isn't great protection against bad blocks. Modern SSDs, when they fail, tend to fail catastrophically (the whole device dies all at once), rather
by ForkMeOnTinder 3y ago
Copying a file isn't great protection against bad blocks. Modern SSDs, when they fail, tend to fail catastrophically (the whole device dies all at once), rather than dying one block at a time. If you care about the data, back it up on a separate piece of hardware.