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  • circuitfarmer
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    1411 months ago

    Personally I have focused on fast SSD storage and utilized the vast, cheap, slow storage available with mechanical drives for backup.

    At the end of the day, if an SSD fails, you’re effectively just screwed. If a mechanical drive fails, there is some possibility that the data is recoverable. But moreover, mechanical storage is so cheap by volume that you can just have redundant backup and never worry about it, really.

      • @Postcard64@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Only when they get to the end of life of the cells. If there’s another failure before that, it’s likely a full failure.

      • circuitfarmer
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        211 months ago

        To my knowledge, that isn’t a consistent pattern (someone please correct if wrong).