Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as terrorist activity

Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:22PM (#28621997)

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.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by genewitch on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:50PM (#28624385)

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.

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Re:Google Drive of historical footage locked and flagged as ... by andrekandre on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:44PM (#28622283)

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?

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