@60pencilgirl Just bought a Samsung T7 Shield, highly rated.
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD seem to suffer sudden failures, according to many reports and a lawsuit is seeking class action status.
@danielscher the SanDisk failures were only with a recent generation of that drive if I recall correctly. Most of my spare drive SSDs are older SanDisk Extremes. The older USB 3.1 speed ones are still plenty fast and are much cheaper than the current day ones.
I also have one of that Samsung T7 Shield. Good drive also.
@60pencilgirl From what I know, SSDs have higher read and write speeds than HDDs, with price as the tradeoff. If the primary reason is storage, then I suppose HDDs are better suited for your needs. But I haven't bought one for so many years.
@60pencilgirl@gamergull SSDs are way better than HDDs. Smaller, lighter, faster, newer tech, and as you mentioned, typically avoid damage when dropped.
@JustAnotherJay@gamergull
I think that's what happened with my WD because it's now having minor issues. I'm able to work around them but it does scary me.
@60pencilgirl@gamergull the thing with any drive, HDD or SSD, is they do wear over time depending on the rated MTBF (hours before failing) and TBW (terrabytes written). Of course, other things can factor in as well. But yes, an HDD is definitely more susceptible to internal damage from drops or banging around.
@60pencilgirl
On current day SSDs, the total bytes written lifespan of SSDs are a bit overstated as a concern. I’ve yet to have any of the dozen or so SSD drives I’ve had fail on me, but I’ve had about a dozen HDD drives either get damaged or die entirely.
I still do use HDDs as secondary backups. I have a “pop-up toaster oven” interface that lets you swap bare metal drives in and out. Those are great if you want to use a whole bunch of HDDs as cheap archival storage.
@JustAnotherJay
Though as we both say this, there was some buzz about a recent generation of the popular Sandisk Extreme SSDs suffering from sudden failures.
There was a systematic defect in that case though. Can’t ever rule that chance out, but I have yet to meet someone face to face who actually lost an SSD drive due to systematic device fatigue from ordinary use.
I seem to remember that Tom’s Hardware put a bunch of SSDs thru fatigue trials and found the rated lifespan to be a poor indicator of real lifespan. The ones that did fail, often failed well in advance and lots of them just kept going and going.
@ksawatsky@stephanie@60pencilgirl 💯Agree. If it's important, multiple places is important. My general rule is if something doesn't exist in at least three places, including one outside of home, I get nervous.
Fair enough. I currently have a WD and was looking at a Seagate.
The new one would be the back up external of my current WD external which is starting to have issues. All that data is also on ubs sticks so there is/will be multiple back ups.
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