On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote: > hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :) > > I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them > to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there > was some recommendation to leave some part of the SSD unallocated > and not formatted as part of a file system so any parts that > failed as bad blocks or wore out could be allocated from these > unused areas. The SSD has this onboard (and, IIRC, always has) -- for example, a 1T drive may have 100G of extra blocks you cannot allocate. > I do like having multiple backups on the different SSDs just > in case one of them decides to fail on me. No signs of any > troubles so far. Longterm (powered-off) backup is actually better on spinning rust; as SSD are somewhat more susceptible to bit-rot when powered off. -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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