[dayglored]

> I use a SSD as my boot drive on my computers, and use externally attached regular hard drives for large capacity storage that also have backups of the SSD's.

That's pretty much my setup as well. Works like a champ.

> I'm amazed that some people don't do regular backups at all, naive people think they will never lose data but they will.

Hey, I heard the other day that there are still people who go dating and having unprotected sex with people they just met. Similar mindset.

;-)

[roadcat]

Uh, I'd rather lose my data than my health! As for dating, once I met my wife almost 45 years ago I left the dating scene. Some scary stuff to ponder for singles regarding sex.

As for PCs, I've lost data on some hard drives but was able to restore from backups. Hard drives would be working one day and then not the next. A couple were due to the controllers failing, but most from the platters getting corrupted so the drive would be thrown out. One SSD got corrupted when I unmounted it, strange as I had done it many times to others. Had to reformat it. So data can be lost on SSD drives. I have also had USB stick drives go bad. If it's important, have multiple copies on different storage media in different locations and you won't lose sleep over loss of data.