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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Thanks for the info, ilovejedd. I'm kind of hijacking this thread, but isn't one of the problems with flash that when it dies, it ALL dies. No second chances or last minute saves? Whereas with standard harddrives, sometimes it's just a bad sector and you still can access most of your stuff, or hinky hardware can still be gotten around to pull the data off if necessary?
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That is more of a controller problem rather than flash itself. Endurance testing has shown SSDs developing bad sectors as P/E cycles are consumed beyond its rating. However, that's just not the typical failure mode experienced in field use.
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
I've been MEANING to set up a raid-style backup for years, but every time I start reading up on it, I just end up frustrated and confused. Too much jargon in whatever I've found to describe what you're doing. It always makes me laugh - at work I'm the "resident (amateur) techie". But I know what I know, and hardware isn't one of the things I know much about.
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That's probably for the best. RAID is more for high availability than it is backup and adds a layer of complexity. If you're not using something like software Linux RAID, the RAID controller used becomes just another point of failure. Given how inexpensive hard drives are nowadays, I just do multiple copies to various HDDs and to Dropbox (cloud storage is the most practical offsite backup option for me).