Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

  • qyron@lemmy.pt
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    1 year ago

    “There are two kinds of people: those of have lost data and those who are about to lose data.”

    Redundancy saves a lot of headaches.

    I’m always for supporting new technologies, new companies, new ideas, but that does not mean I’m dropping everything to just get that brand new shiny stuff.

    I see the concept and technology for SSDs as groubdbreaking and pretty awsome but I don’t trust those drives to store data I don’t want to lose. I still use good old fashioned HDDs: the tech is tried and tested, mature and reliable and very affordable.

    I still use SSDs but I use them as not safe storage mediums, prone to break at any moment, without any warning.

    And regardless of this I still keep several copies of important files and critical ones, if possible, are made physical.

    And even then…

    Read the opening sentence again.