Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Price to published write entrance might get you started, but I’m curious what answers you get because this is a difficult question IMHO. Actual reliability depends heavily on firmware which is a vendor-specific secret sauce.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 8 months ago
It’s absolutely opaque to me, especially the non-big-name brands barely get any reliable reviews and especially given the silicon lottery, I can’t tell if every chip is like the reviewed ones.
If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
That’s what RAID(5) is for, if a drive craps out you just shrug and get a new one (or warranty), no data loss. Easy enough to cobble together with a PCIe card and 4ish smaller drives, faster too…
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, except when a second drive dies 36 hours later and suddenly you are panicking…
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Yep, as can happen easily if you buy in a batch. Just like ransom (related, no?), non-sequential serial numbers please.