On Saturday 13 July 2024 13:41:35 dep via tde-users wrote: > Am on a tablet running ProtonMail, so I can't readily bottom post. But I > saw that this involves SSDs, and thought it worth mentioning that SSDs are > notorious for failing as a result of blackouts. If you look around you will > find the exact mechanism; it usually involves the power dying while a write > is underway. > > It happened to me this spring during my RPi build-a-television project. > Brand new 1tb SSD, literally just out of the box and checked. Was copying > Debian install from the SD card to SSD. Power merely glitched, maybe a > second. That was all it took. SSD was stone dead. Fortunately, Crucial > replaced it. And I got small UPSes for every machine that has an SSD. > > They're pretty delicate. And their failure modes are non-obvious. I spent > several days trying to resurrect mine before giving up. > > dep Yeah, and not just SSDs. I had a regular old spinning hard drive that got killed like that, although it was a more severe case. I was copying files from one hard drive to another for backup, and the power went out. Two birds were killed with one stone. I lost everything, all that data, including 40 years of field research, only some of which I have in hard copy (and those hard copies are buried away in files in storage). If you or anybody else could recommend some good UPS for backups of my machines, that would be a great help. I used to have one back in the days of desktop computers (and I do still have a desktop, in storage), but now with laptops and tablets and smartphones trying to take over the world, the power backup solutions are getting hard to find. Or maybe things are just changing too fast, and I am too old and slow to catch on. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
