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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 by MrDrMcCoy on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:01AM (#43022635)
Heat is also a problem for flash. If you care about your data, you have to keep it cool and redundant.
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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 by chuckledog on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:16AM (#43026187)
This. My new Samsung T7 SSD overheated and took 4T of kinda priceless family photos with it. Thank you Backblaze for storing those backups for us! I missed the return window on the SSD so now have a little fan running to keep the thing from overheating again
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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 by Kelvin506 on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:15AM (#43034818)
With the added complication that the controller should be kept cool, but the flash should run warm.

The NVMe drives in my servers have these little aluminium cases on them as part of the hotswap assembly. They manage the temperature differential by using a conductive pad for the controller, but not the flash.

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