No mo' hard drives

[cdaigle430]

Is there a standard SSD connection? How do I get the SSD info if the mother board or power system fails on the computer? For my hard drives, I remove them and use them if I can. The HD from my old Dell was being used to access Google Earth; it was retired because it had slowed due to some bad sectors. Recently found another hard drive from the wife's other old Dell. Put it on there. It works but had been erased. Will remove the one from the recently deceased old Dell and see if it works. Put my old Dell HD back on the converter (to USB), and it has quit. Will bash it up and throw it away now.

On this machine, my flash drive is my main drive with cloud backup, but I backup both my machine and her machine about once every 3 months to a flash drive located in a fireproof box in the fireproof basement of the carriage house. I'm big on backups. Even have some on some old CDs and Zip drives.

Ralph

Thats the way to do it SSD connection depends on SSD interface type and SSD hardware type. For example, just talking about one you can add to your HDD bay, there is a cradle you can buy and typicaly the SSD drive will have an SATA type connecter. Motherboards can also have a memory type plug in for SSD drive chips that you can use.

If you have an older laptop or PC you can use the fastest USB port you have and buy an external HDD USB enclosure (you can buy them with the SSD already) and instal the SSD drive of your choice.

I need to backup more frequently because ransomeware is on the rise. Once business become to difficult a target they ill start coming after us again.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Now when your DATA is unrecoverable, it will truly be that.

 

[cdaigle430]

If you have a SSD, be sure to do regular backups. That flash ram has a limited number of write cycles.

This is true but with some caveats...

The cheaper lower quality drives have higher failure rates than the more expensive ones. You also want to use the software utility that comes with your drive as it will increase the SSD drives life.

If your doing high writes and deletes then it can reduce its life. Ive been running my 1TB NANO Samsung SSD drive for 4 years now editing, copying, deleting, moving large 4k videos and pics from my drone, cameras, 360 cameras and Samsung notes. So far so good

 

[RalphVa]

What is there to wear out on an SSD?

 

[YLee Kioti]

What is there to wear out on an SSD?

Here's a good read on long term reliability.
https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/storage-hardware/ssd-lifespan.html

 

[Grumpycat]

What is there to wear out on an SSD?

Non-volatile silicon storage has a limited number of write cycles. Early designs were as little as 100-1,000 writes. Things started getting interesting at 100,000 write cycles. Don't know what they are claiming today but much of the magic in an SSD is the integrated controller which remaps "disk blocks" to distribute wear over the entire media so things like the blocks holding the filesystem directory do not wear out rendering the entire SSD useless. This remapping makes the task of undeleting files very difficult.

Some use a RAM cache to delay writes to the non-volatile media guessing the most recent thing written is the most likely thing to be changed. Developers need to know this is occurring rather than trust critical data has been written all the way to non-volatile storage. Years ago hard drives started putting large RAM caches onboard which caused many to lose data when computer shut down before all data made it to the disc.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

What is there to wear out on an SSD?

The memory is good for a limited number of write cycles. A good SSD will monitor the junctions and lock out the bits that are going bad. I use a 128 GB SD card on one of my old laptops, and run chkdsk /F on it once a month or so. That's why you need to run a backup on a SSD fairly often.

Data storage lifespans: How long will media really last? - StorageCraft.

 

[RalphVa]

I work directly from my flash drive on this machine and immediately copy to my OneDrive cloud. Not using the SSD for my own files.

On my wife's machine now, she's not computer savvy enough to do what I do. So, I've prompted myself on Outlook calendar to back her files up once/wk. Told her to write down each folder that she makes a change to.

Seems impossible to determine what folders have been changed in File Explorer. Just shows the dates on each folder when the folder was created.

You copy the whole bit, and it takes a while and File Explorer starts throwing "copies" of folders all over the place.

Ralph

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Also, don't defrag a SSD. It will just bring the failure date closer, and does nothing for the drive throughput.

 

[RalphVa]

Also, don't defrag a SSD. It will just bring the failure date closer, and does nothing for the drive throughput.

I was thinking the same thing when I read about that. Glad you clarified it.