Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?
On 2025-09-04, Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
>> On Thursday 04 September 2025 07:40:16 am Andy Smith wrote:
>> > Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not
>> > being able to reliably hold data if left powered off for years.
>>
>> Wondering if this is why a whole mess of salvaged hard drives that I thought I might find useful at some point are totally non-functional,
>
> I said flash storage but you say "hard drives". Perhaps we are just
> being loose with our terminology here but a "hard drive" or "HDD" is
> normally referring to something magnetically encoded on a spinning disc
> and is not a flash-based SSD. I'm not sure because this thread is about
> SSDs, so I would question why you would start talking about HDDs.
Because someone mentioning how SSDs being powered off over a long period
might make the data on them evaporate, he recalled some old HDDs he'd tried
to salvage that seemed to him to be defunct, and he wondered whether the
same cause had produced a similar effect.
That's how I read it anyway.
> As HDDs don't lose data from extended periods of being without power,
> and this thread is about SSDs, I'm going to assume that you meant SSDs
> here, not "hard drives".
>
>> when I hook them up they're just not seen at all by the computer in question...
>
> The expected symptoms of leaving an SSD unpowered for years would be
> that it might not have all of the data on it any more (resulting in
> filesystem corruption, if there had been a filesystem there). It would
> not stop the SSD from being recognised by the computer or working as an
> SSD once new data was put on it. So you are experiencing something else.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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