cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoUnpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issueswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkUnpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issueswww.tomshardware.comcm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square1linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.ml
minus-squareEkky@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months ago Seeing these errors means “the SSD is on its way out,” according to HTWingNut. Since we’re simply talking about being unpowered for a while, wouldn’t a simple full format fix/reset all ECC errors? No need to scrap the drive. Surely a cap/transistor temporarily losing charge shouldn’t permanently destroy it! Anyways, HDD for 6-24 months offline data storage, SSD for always-online data storage, and flash if you’re a masochist like me.
Since we’re simply talking about being unpowered for a while, wouldn’t a simple full format fix/reset all ECC errors? No need to scrap the drive.
Surely a cap/transistor temporarily losing charge shouldn’t permanently destroy it!
Anyways, HDD for 6-24 months offline data storage, SSD for always-online data storage, and flash if you’re a masochist like me.