minus-squareEkky@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issueslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65arrow-down1·7 days ago Seeing these errors means “the SSD is on its way out,” according to HTWingNut. Since we’re simply talking about being unpowered for a while, wouldn’t a simple full format fix/reset all ECC errors? No need to scrap the drive. Surely a cap/transistor temporarily losing charge shouldn’t permanently destroy it! Anyways, HDD for 6-24 months offline data storage, SSD for always-online data storage, and flash if you’re a masochist like me. linkfedilink
minus-squareEkky@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPTlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAnd then links to a similar sounding but ultimately totally unrelated site. linkfedilink
Since we’re simply talking about being unpowered for a while, wouldn’t a simple full format fix/reset all ECC errors? No need to scrap the drive.
Surely a cap/transistor temporarily losing charge shouldn’t permanently destroy it!
Anyways, HDD for 6-24 months offline data storage, SSD for always-online data storage, and flash if you’re a masochist like me.