On Monday 09 September 2024 21.19:12 dep via tde-users wrote: > My experience has been that SSDs ain't soup yet. > (...) > Which is to say that in my experience the damned things are too delicate > for use other than in a big raid, where they can be yanked and tossed when > they fail. > > They might be food for something, maybe fast buffering or something, but > until they can be made more robust they're a lot less safe than mechanical > hard drives, imho. While I would certainly not pretend this (horror) story is an exception, and possibly here in Switzerland we have a better power net, I've been running on SSDs and Nvme's on my main machines for a few years with no such experience (and many of these drives are second hand). But one thing remains: with solid state disks you can have a "healthy" disc today and wake up tomorrow with a dead one, no dying symptom. My solution for my main machine is that I purchased three identical nvmes (128GB, cheap because everyone wnats big drives now). One is in the machine, two are in USB enclosures. The drive contains /, home and a data partition with important files. "Backup" is made by cloning to one of the USB drives (takes less than 15 minutes). Other, less valuable data are on a 1TB SSD. So your mileage may vary, but I did not have such trouble with solid state data support. Thierry ____________________________________________________ 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
