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- they blew 2 of my hard drives so far. you keep it connected and it used to do hourly backups except now both my hard drives are dead - i am too afraid to buy
by vivzkestrel 9mo ago
- they blew 2 of my hard drives so far. you keep it connected and it used to do hourly backups except now both my hard drives are dead
- i am too afraid to buy another one and connect only to find out the SSD gets killed in another week
- Anyone knows about this issue?
- varenc 9mo agoyou're probably backing up things that change very often you don't care about? Figure out what's taking up space in each backup and use `tmutil excludepath -p <dir>`.
- vivzkestrel 9mo agoi excluded a whole bunch of things, i did not run out of space. my SSD actually blew up. it has become unusable, i cant even open it anymore
- varenc 9mo agoDamn... my only guess: time machine backups are VERY write heavy. Is it a reputable brand of SSD? Is time machine frequently erasing old backups? Many external portable SSDs that work fine for regular consumer uses, might struggle to handle the write volume of time machine backups. I've used 2 external SSDs with time machine and never had them fail. (T7 Samsung SSDs) Also you'd want the SSDs to be much larger than what you need to backup. If they're small, then time machine will have to erase the older backups to make new backups, which just leads to more rewrites, stressing the SSD more. The ones I used were 4TB, but a clean first backup of my system was only like 250GB (because many things excluded). And then daily incremental backups are like 1-3GB.