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  • "Are SSDs Really More Reliable Than Hard Drives?"

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Thu Sep 30 20:43:34 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    "Are SSDs Really More Reliable Than Hard Drives?"

    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/are-ssds-really-more-reliable-than-hard-drives/

    "By the way, we’ll be publishing a post in a couple of weeks on how well drive failure rates fit the bathtub curve; SPOILER ALERT: old drives
    fail a lot."

    I have bought about 20 SSDs for business and home, from 180 GB to 2 TB.
    I do not have a log but about 3 or 4 of them have failed. The worst was
    a 500 GB Intel that was randomly failing. I opened it up and there was
    black moisture inside, I wondered if it was melting somehow.

    Lynn
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  • From Pedro Valdez@pedro1492@lycos.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage on Fri Oct 1 22:25:19 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 9:43:37 AM UTC+8, Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I have bought about 20 SSDs for business and home, from 180 GB to 2 TB.
    I do not have a log but about 3 or 4 of them have failed. The worst was
    a 500 GB Intel that was randomly failing. I opened it up and there was
    black moisture inside, I wondered if it was melting somehow.


    I had of the early models (60 GB IIRC) fail. The interface died, so host would not see it. Fortunately it was a scratch disk for sorting datasets, nothing needed to be salvaged.
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