On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 06:55:27PM +0100, hw wrote:
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 11:57 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:34:32PM +0100, hw wrote: > And mind you, SSDs are *designed to fail* the sooner the more data you write > to > them. They have their uses, maybe even for storage if you're so desperate, > but > not for backup storage. It's unlikely you'll "wear out" your SSDs faster than you wear out your HDs.I have already done that.
Then you're either well into "not normal" territory and need to buy an SSD with better write longevity (which I seriously doubt for a backup drive) or you just got unlucky and got a bad copy (happens with anything) or you've misdiagnosed some other issue.