[geeks] Disks: recommendations?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 10/30/20 12:26 AM, Mouse wrote:
>>> So far, I've avoided SSDs.  [...]
>> On pretty much any decent modern SSD, wear leveling really isn't an
>> issue any more, anything not bargain-basement third tier is typically
>> now rated for multiple full device writes per DAY for longer than the
>> entire rated service life of the drive.
> 
> What _is_ "the entire rated service life of the drive"?  I would be
> surprised if it were not far shorter than the time I want to keep my
> data.

Well, for instance, Samsung 850 EVO drives carry a five-year warranty,
and their 860 Pro drives are warranted for ten years.


> Fair point - but stuck drives typically can be made to start another
> time or two, enough to get one last read of their data.  Do SSDs fail
> similarly, or do they just cross a line and go from "working fine" to
> "completely dead" when their firmware decides it's had enough?  I would
> hope they'd instead flip from "working fine" to "read-only", but I have
> little faith such hopes would be realized.

I think SSDs still tend to abruptly and completely fail.  Either they
work or they don't, they don't really have a "degraded" mode.



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