Camera clicks are numbered… are SSD days too?

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SSD Life Expectancy
Even top end cameras have a limited number of actuations
but will a SSD drive last long? Should we trust our data to
such precarious durability reputation device?


 
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Who knows !!!

Both my laptop and desktop have SSD C drives but I would never trust my Music, Photos and Documents on them, these are all on mechanical hard drives and backed up to to more mechanical hard drives.
 
Because a spinning disk can't at all fail on day 1...

This is exactly why you should ALWAYS have backups of anything you don't want to lose.

For what it's worth I've got Samsung SSD that have had tb's of written data and health reports as good.
 
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My understanding is that most HDDs will, in most cases, give a warning that they are about to fail normally via the o/s whereas SSDs can be showing as in good health one moment and then fail the next and that recovery of any data thereon is not possible.
 
It's just a question of knowing the failure modes and probabilities of your devices and using backup strategies which cope with them. I worked for years using early 8 inch floppy disc drives which failed about once a month. Every session I'd make two backups of what I'd done. At the end of every day I'd make four. I kept several generations back. I never lost any data.
 
You can always buy two if your information is important.
Use RAID 1 so that they mirror each other.
As long as 1 drive is always alive the information is safe.
 
GTG said:
You can always buy two if your information is important.
Use RAID 1 so that they mirror each other.
As long as 1 drive is always alive the information is safe.
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Just remember ... RAID is not a backup.

Data loss occurs much more often from user error which would be replicated across both drives of a RAID1 mirror than from drive failures. OS or other software corruption is second most likely cause of data loss, also not protected for by RAID.
 
Eloise said:
Just remember ... RAID is not a backup.

Data loss occurs much more often from user error which would be replicated across both drives of a RAID1 mirror than from drive failures. OS or other software corruption is second most likely cause of data loss, also not protected for by RAID.
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Personally I don't even worry about it.

I never had a drive fail or any PC part fail in well over 20 years of using them half the day 7 days a week. ( except speakers in an ultrabook )

My current ultrabook is on 24 / 7. I never shut it down lol. Still works.
 
Eloise said:
Just remember ... RAID is not a backup.

Data loss occurs much more often from user error which would be replicated across both drives of a RAID1 mirror than from drive failures. OS or other software corruption is second most likely cause of data loss, also not protected for by RAID.
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What she said. If the raid is your only copy you're playing with fire.

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Personally I don't even worry about it.

I never had a drive fail or any PC part fail in well over 20 years of using them half the day 7 days a week. ( except speakers in an ultrabook )

My current ultrabook is on 24 / 7. I never shut it down lol. Still works.
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You should play the lottery.
 
Our hp server at work has 4 WD hard disks in a pair of raids. Two have failed over the four years. Raid is a resilience strategy, not a backup.
 
The bloke on the video says they should last many years if not decades, so I don't see the need for this thread.

My 120Gb SSD was bought in 2011 and still working fine. I've only had a couple of ordinary hard drives fail over the years.

Backups are part of my processing.
 
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so I don't see the need for this thread.
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Though there are no moving parts, Mike, they may fail too sooner.
This thread, through a back door, is a plaidoyé for BU solutions.
 
NEVER trust a single media device is my motto; I have multiple copies of my data on SSD & different HDD. I would not trust a £5 USB memory stick any more than a £400 enterprise class 3.5" HDD. Having spent my entire working life (40+ years, now retired) using computers there isn't a single recording device (apart from maybe pen & paper) I would trust. I worked in industry & education with multi-million pound mainframe server farms all the way down to networked PCs with floppy disks and USB memory devices and across the board they have all seen multiple device failures. Whether a device failure results in data loss or not is down to how good your system management procedures are for backup & recovery. Too many people ignore backups at their peril.

When I was a school network manager I lost count of the number of times a member of staff (including school management) or a student would come to me with a sad tale about their only copy of a vital file being on the defunct device in their hands & could I recover it..... sadly on many occasions the answer was no. This was despite me previously telling them to make sure they had more than one copy of their data saved.

When you save an important piece of work or an image etc ask yourself what you would do if you lost it? If you care about it, back it up!
 
I've had enough HDDs fail over 20 years to be 'aware' they have a finite lifespan. Sometimes it's because of mechanical interference (case getting bumped/laptop dropped) and sometimes it's just because the drive failed (who knew that Western Digital drives had a problem with Linux Mint?). I have a Samsung128GB 830 series SSD that suffered corruption of the OS on it and is not longer bootable or repairable - no idea why, but one day it just didn't work. OTOH the other 3 SSD drives I have all work fine after several years use.

However it's another reason I'm unhappy about a soldered in drive.
 
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