10 Sep
2024
10 Sep
'24
1:13 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 19:19 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote:
said William Morder via tde-users:
> Neither of these SSDs are recognized by my
machine, using either
> connector. (Don't know what they are properly called, but there is a
> picture in that links that Felix sent:
My experience has been that SSDs ain't soup yet. I
have a WD 500gb SA500
that worked for about two weeks before dying. This spring, I got a 1-tb
NVMe M.2 SSDs for a Raspberry Pi 5 machine. The first one was in the
process of a write when there was a power glitch so slight that it didn't
even make the clocks blink. But it killed the drive stone dead. Crucial
replaced it, and I have UPSed the Raspberry to a farethewell. If you poke
around you'll find that such stories are common.
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My experience (fortunately) has been different. I started replacing spinny
disks with SSDs in my laptops about 7 or 8 years ago, and I've had some
RPis using them 24/7/365 for a few (4 or 5?) years.
So far, I have had zero problems with them. Further, my local power
company was just fined over $1M (the fourth year in a row they have been
fined) because of their inability to meet delivery reliability targets, so
it isn't like the quality of power I get is excellent.
I've had laptops with flash memory (i.e., not SATA interface SSDs) since
2017, and I haven't had any problem with them either.
On the flip side, I've had a number of spinny disks go bad. All but one
gave me some warning. One died without notice, remarkably within 2 minutes
of a backup finishing.
In summary, I'm sorry that some of you have been having problems, but the
situation is not uniformly bleak.
Jim