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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by ggm on Monday January 14, 2019 @07:25PM (#18907905)
In which case, even less reason to hate on SSD for home storage in RAID shells.

I have a spun-down RAID farm as longterm. It's worrying me that the unit the disks are in is a SPARC based motherboard now over 10 years old. Those caps don't last forever.

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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by Fronzie on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @12:05PM (#18912673)
and the magnetized bits on an HDD have an expected livetime of 25 years. Unless read-and-rewritten every so many years
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