Comment on “We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge
dangblingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know these comments are going to be full of people touting the virtues of having backup drives, NAS, or other high level data protection, but am I the crazy one? Knock on wood, I know nothing lasts forever, but I have decade+ old usb drives still going strong. How do they burn through so many externals?
They may have been doing video editing on it. That can be a good amount of read/writes that will wear down a drive.
Vjeran is a supervising producer of a tech site. He should know to back shit up. I’m sure a site as big as The Verge has decent cloud backup.
PR_freak@programming.dev 10 months ago
Chances are your decade old USB sticks didn’t go through as much read/write operations as those 3tb ssds
dangblingus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe not. I don’t mean sticks though, I mean full size mechanical external drives. Not even solid state. On my 3TB, I’ve probably done about 10TB of writes (video backup, transfers, etc)