On Thursday 10 September 2020 15:49:21 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2020, deloptes wrote:
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
With these new SSD drives, though, I am in uncharted territory. I passed on a much cheaper Samsung, but eventually got a WD 1 TB SSD, which so far (fingers crossed) has performed like a champion.
if it matters, use them always in pairs (raid) otherwise backup, cause there are no spinning disks inside that you can extract and recover.
Sage advice. Advice I follow with redundancy. I back up important stuff to a "backups" directory, then /home to another internal drive, which is raided with another. Then to 2 external drives.
I also make DVD backups.
I lost data once, about 22 years ago. I had to start from scratch. Never again.
Kate
Yeah, I *thought* that I had learned that lesson. I was redistributing materials on my various hard drives so that I could organize like with like. In the middle of this, when the flash drive failed, followed by the source on this hard disk, I was caught without a backup.
Bill