Comment on SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m fed up with external hard drives. Every single one I get fails within 2 years. I got a Western Digital “my passport” 2TB hard drive and it only took a year to start making loud clicking noises (failure imminent). Are there any ones out there that are actually built to last, or am I just unlucky?
alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 year ago
Get a cheap 2.5" SATA enclosure or an m.2 enclosure and throw a real SSD in it. That’s what I’ve been doing and I get significantly higher speeds for significantly cheaper, as well as not having any fail on me
axo@feddit.de 1 year ago
Dont use SSDs for offline backups. The flash storage can experience random bit flips if not powered on every now and then.
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Source?
The minimum specs I’ve seen for NAND flash chips are 10 year retention time at room temperature.
Being powered on isn’t enough to change this, the firmware would have to be actively reading, erasing and writing blocks of data to refresh them.
axo@feddit.de 1 year ago
My professor told me this fact in class, but upon searching for papers I did not find anything to support it.
So probably you are right.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep. A good enclosure with a well rated drive in it is the way to go.