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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by mistrial9 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:29AM (#36418897)
opposite experience here.. set the sleep to a reasonable value, keep the temperatures and power stable, and the better quality spinning disks (7200rpm) are great. I have had three SSDs fail without warning in the same time period, supposedly better quality SSDs.
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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by xhkkffbf on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:23PM (#36424799)
Me too. Flash is a great technology, but it tends to forget things, especially if there's no power applied to it.
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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by willis936 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:39AM (#36430171)
That's fine, but online MTBF is much shorter for hard drives than flash. If you don't use your computers then hard drives make for better cold storage.
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