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To: Openurmind

The only spinning discs I use these days are two 22TB drives for network storage and a bunch of backup drives in USB enclosures. All the rest were replaced with NVMEs and SSDs years ago.


50 posted on 10/06/2025 6:41:58 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

Being mobile I am space challenged so I just use old hand me down Laptops. They all have disks except one ASUS which is a hybrid drive hard/SSD. But all my USB drives are SSD. That is the cool thing about Linux, as you know it likes old computers so acquiring give away Laptops is easy. I just keep the disk drives backed up well in case they fail.


52 posted on 10/06/2025 7:35:36 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: fireman15; Openurmind

Yeah, a poster above dissed SSD’s for failing without warning, but I’ve never had one fail. I HAVE had 3 USB sticks fail, though, since they came out, each on a different machine, and years apart. IIRC, 2 of those 3 became erratic or showed errors B4 failing completely, and 1 of those 2 was a “never heard of it” brand, 1 was a Sandisk, and I forget what brand the other one was.


56 posted on 10/08/2025 1:22:14 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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