The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data

Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by bullen on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @01:43AM (#46042983)

I concur; in my experience ALL my 24/7 drives from 2009-2013 still work today and ALL my 2014+ are dead, started dying after 5 years, last one died 9 years later. Around 10 drives in each group. All older drives are below 100GB (SLC) all never are above 200GB (MLC). I reverted back to older drives for all my machines in 2021 after scoring 30x unused X25-E on ebay.

The only MLC I use today are Samsungs best industrial drives and they work sort of... but no promises. And SanDisc SD cards that if you buy the cheapest ones last a surprising amount of time. 32GB lasted 11-12 years for me. Now I mostly install 500GB-1TB ones (recently = only been running for 2-3 years) after installing some 200-400GB ones that work still after 7 years.

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by Aurornis on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:38AM (#46046136)

> in my experience ALL my 24/7 drives from 2009-2013 still work today and ALL my 2014+ are dead,

As a counter anecdote, I have a lot of SSDs from the late 2010s that are still going strong, but I lost some early SSD drives to mysterious and unexpected failures (not near the wear-out level).

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Re:The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your ... by bullen on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:03PM (#46047913)

Interesting, what kind where they? Mine where all Intel.

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