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On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it |
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>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars), |
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>> don't expect it to last long. |
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> I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2 |
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> duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was getting painfully |
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> slow, and really large spreadsheets were dying in 3 gigabytes of ram, |
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> but otherwise it still worked. 256 G SSD is not enough for me now. |
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> That takes us into 512 G SSD territory, which will be "adequate" for |
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> now, but who knows about my future needs. |
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I've recovered (or tried to) drives for other people, but again I've |
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been lucky in that I've never lost one of my own drives. |
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And as for nVME, some magazine did a "test to destruction" of |
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solid-state drives. They lasted almost for ever - I think the |
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computer(s) were configured to hammer the drives 24/7 and they lasted |
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over 18 months - that's probably a decade and more in normal usage. |
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The one thing to watch out for, is that if you DO encounter problems, DO |
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NOT shut the machine down. If a drive suffers failure, stage 1 seems to |
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be to go read-only. YOU MUST back it up immediately, because stage 2 is |
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to commit suicide on reboot. But you're highly unlikely to meet that |
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scenario in normal use. |
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I'm planning to buy one of those shingled horrors - a Seagate BaraCuda |
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12TB - for backups. Use btrfs or LVM, and rsync in-place copy. A good |
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idea in any case, but probably an even better idea if your main storage |
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is SSD. |
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Cheers, |
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