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Hello, everybody. I've been looking for a new storage solution. I know, that HDDs are reliable and SSDs are for fast access, but I've been an HDD user ever since. I have an SSD, but I only have the OS on it. Likewise, I want to do some basic File operations, as writing documents or copy files. It would also be great if I could use it as a Backup kind of sorts device. It would be great if I could move my data from my old WD-Elements external HDD, quickly, to an intern HDD without any fuss. I just need a Storage medium that's cheap and good. Do you have any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

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[–] twelve12@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks, especially in a laptop that gets banged around. HDDs win in only one category: capacity per price.

[–] SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SSDs are way more reliable than spinning disks

That's true, with one caveat: if an SSD fails, it's usually catastrophically and without warning. HDDs usually give some warning signs before they fail completely (bad sectors, read/write errors, strange noises).

[–] twelve12@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The SSD memory cell failure mode is to retain the last written contents, so I actually don't think I agree. In the SMART diagnostics, it shows how many of these bad cells are present, which is a reasonable indicator of impending failure from age

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One major failure mode of SSDs is that they can corrupt their FTL map. That kills all of the data instantly.

(Now, a major reliability advantage of SSDs is that by being faster, you can also make a backup of them faster. And if backups goes faster, you're more likely to actually do them. Right? Right!?)

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[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who is slowly migrating his Nas to u.2 SSD, so much this.

Reliability, speed, density. Everything is better with solid state.

[–] RagingToad@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

As a European: low power consumption!