On 4/11/19 8:13 am, Raymond, David wrote: > Thanks for the insight on SSDs -- sounds like there is not much of an > issue with modern drives.
Well, you're at the mercy of the SSD firmware to "do the right thing" and move the data around to ensure even wear levelling. Most do. The fact that you see SSDs on the consumer market that have 3 and 5 year warranties on them (the 2TB Samsung in my laptop at home had a 10 year warranty), suggests the manufacturers are either highly confident their product will last (or at least confident their disclaimers will let them off the hook). In the last few years I've had a couple of SD cards wear out, and one Intel 240GB SSD fail prematurely (it had a 3 year warranty, was about 12 months old at the time). I had some fun initially claiming the warranty of the Intel as they wanted a report from their Windows-only tool (hopefully their engineering team have seen fit to produce a stand-alone bootable version). I was able to provide reports from `smartctl` on Linux. After I pointed out that I didn't have Windows on this machine (and that if I did, it would have gone up in smoke with the SSD failing), they accepted this and replaced the faulty drive without further issues. Like any storage technology, SSDs are not infallible. Back up the data you wish to keep regularly, and test your back-ups. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
