Took me 10 years to finally trust SSD drives for critical data

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Back in 2014 I had a 128GB Samsung 840 EVO just die on me out of nowhere... no warning, no bad sectors, nothing. I still think about that when people act like SSDs are bulletproof. Sure they're fast and quiet but when they fail they fail completely, you don't get the clicking heads and grinding sounds like an HDD to tell you something's wrong. I keep my backups on old spinning rust drives because at least I can hear them dying before it's too late.

averywright5d ago

Friend of mine had a Samsung 850 EVO go completely silent on him back in 2018. He was editing video, computer froze, rebooted and the drive was just gone. No noise, no warning, nothing. Lost three months of client work because his backup drive had failed two weeks earlier and he didn't check it. He switched back to spinning drives for his main storage after that, said he'd rather listen to a drive click than get ghosted by an SSD. I still use SSDs in my laptop but keep my important stuff on a 6TB WD Red that I can hear spinning from across the room.