Sorry to hear about your SSD woes, afoken. Sounds like another one to add to the quick-hack-stealthily-becomes-mission-critical file.

However, I did want to offer my thanks for this wisdom about SSD sudden death. My current main machine uses spinning platters (mostly RAID-1) but is planned to be replaced in the next few months, likely with one with SSD as that seems to be the new norm. On the basis of what you have written, I will be even more paranoid than usual about ensuring the frequency, quality and availability of the backups.

🦛

In reply to Re: [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently by hippo
in thread [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently by afoken

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