Incidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too.

It’s enough to make me anxious between backups: at least with spinning rust-drives we can transplant the platters and controllers (separately, even!) while SSD hardware recovery is almost unheard of.

I keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!).

I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing.

I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power.

That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.

thats interesting, its been the exact opposite for me...

though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?

>assuming the emails you're sent won't also eventually result in the locking and banning of your Google account

Sounds like a plan, it’s actually cheaper in a sense. Today I saw my webhost had nextcloud one-click installs, that might be useful for those files you want accessible everywhere. I already pay for the space, so it doesn’t cost me extra.