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The difference is that a good SSD has a far lower AFR than a good hard drive, at least if Puget systems and backblaze are to be believed.
by ls612 3y ago
The difference is that a good SSD has a far lower AFR than a good hard drive, at least if Puget systems and backblaze are to be believed.
- jqpabc123 3y agoYou mean "good" like in maybe a Samsung SSD? https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2023/02/02/update-on-samsung-ssd-reliability/ https://www.pugetsystems.com/blog/2023/02/02/update-on-samsu... You gotta love the manufacturer's response --- good news, we have update for that --- now that your data is gone.
- ls612 3y agoYeah if you never updated your firmware for years and years something bad could happen. For context the problem was patched in 2021 before being discovered in 2023. In the mean time with modern firmware they had a 0.2% failure rate according to Puget’s blog.
- jqpabc123 3y agoSorry, does not compute. If the problem was patched in 2021, why does their new product line launched in late 2022 still have problems? If safety and security and integrity is the main concern, you should be using HDD in my opinion.
- ls612 3y agoThere were separate unrelated issues with the 980 pro and 990 pro early firmware both of which were patched.
- jqpabc123 3y agoAll these unrelated issues are just extra failure modes that don't exist with HDD. But because it's software that caused the loss of all your data and it can be patched, it doesn't really count as a "failure" in hardware terms.