![]() Every single write to the drive brings it closer to Drive Cemetery. With SSDs, depending on how they are used, there is essentially a countdown clock at end of warranty. Hit and miss of course, but still the majority of quality stuff really lasts well. It's Neowin tech people here and some percentage of techies like to eke out every bit of value and lifetime from equipment and in the past most devices (if initially purchased from quality manufacturers) could be expected to survive well past the warranty period by a few multiples even. It's not hard to imagine the industry doing a standard API between SSD firmware and OS to make that happen. You could then rescue the drive by re-partitioning it, even cut to half-size since spare cells are zero at that point and then the huge new empty partition becomes new spare cell repository for the firmware. Personally, I would wish they had been smart enough to just mark the sector involved as an unrecoverable error and then let the O/S remap sectors like it would do for a hard drive. Once spare cells run down to ZERO, the drive is dead. Current generation SSDs will almost certainly make it past the warranty period but then it gets tricky. SSD's share one characteristic with keyboards and mice in that they wear down the more you use them. I had left SSDs off my little ad-hoc list due to complexity. Unique nature of SSDs might require different attention to where they fit in a "protection" plan.įor SSDs, SMART data is useless and they fail completely in a millisecond with ZERO notice or hint of a problem.Ī cut n paste of my post here: comment=598410942 If you all get motivated to contribute lots of ideas and information, even obvious stuff like articles and links etc, I will type it up/assemble it into some sort of reference for the community. BACKBLAZE RAISES PERSONAL BACKUP HOW TOSo, before I purchase a new 4TB or 6TB or 8TB to replace it, I am motivated to consider ideas for improving the organization of information, the types and importance levels of "things that need backing up" and whatever types of software that could help with an improved strategy.Ī) some sort of continuous disk scan across the entire LAN so that if a drive fails, I know what exactly was lostī) A software backup system that has levels/tags/categories etc to account for different methods and different types of coverage across a typical home LAN of 10 computers, with 4 hard drives per computer, maybe 200 TB of which only the most important stuff could presumably be backed up online.Ĭ) I might have only 10 TB at most of critical data (and that is always duplicated across the LAN with most critical stuff backed up online), but the other 200 TB becomes a giant pain point when drives fail and and you have to figure out what is gone and how to recover it, so some sort of software that "manages recovery" with different responses to different tiers?ĭ) Backblaze, at $5 per month stops being attractive when you realize it is for 1 computer only and $50 per month for my LAN is just excessive when I only have maybe 10 TB at most of critical data, so do I make a Backblaze type of Mini-POD?Į) All the things I haven't yet considered. ![]() So, I don't know what was on the drive, just the enormity of what can be inside of 2 TB!Ĥ. It also had media files which are a different kind of issue.ģ. ![]() And I used this drive as a "Parking Lot" to hold about 30 gig "chunks" of things that "belonged" somewhere else. ![]() I was gradually reorganizing things across various drives on various computers on my home LAN. I just had a hard drive fail with 2 TB of unknown stuff of unknown importance.Ģ. EDIT: I will convert the main post to a summary over time of whatever might be useful as an information resource.īackblaze Open Source Hardware Pod Design: ![]()
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