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Hard drives last even less, what is even your point? I don't understand. Do you suggest they store their photos on magnetic tape or what?
by yau8edq12i 3y ago
Hard drives last even less, what is even your point? I don't understand. Do you suggest they store their photos on magnetic tape or what?
- jeffreygoesto 3y agoThe ones in my QNAP lasted at least 12 years. I replaced it just recently. The only durable storages are acid free paper and microfiche afaik. And you need a controlled climate.
- diggan 3y agoMy point is regarding writes specifically. A HDD can typically survive longer than a SSD if they were both to receive the same amount of writes over time. SSDs use flash memory cells, which have a limited amount of writes you can do to them before they start to fail. Compared to magnetic disks in HDDs that don't have a finite lifetime of writes. If you are mostly reading data, then no worries, probably won't affect you. But NASs typically gets a lot of writes, so you want something more durable than SSDs (in terms of writes).
- yau8edq12i 3y agoHow often do you move or delete your backed up photos?
- diggan 3y agoOr add to your collection. Depends on how many people you are who use the same NAS and how many photos you take. Sure, if you upload 10 photos a week and never do any other reads, go with a SSD for all I care, it'll last long enough.
- yau8edq12i 3y agoIf you don't move or delete old photos, all new photos will be written to a new cell. The writes add up for cells, not for the whole SSD...
- meatmanek 3y agoModern SSD controllers should be doing wear-leveling such that you don't need to worry about this.