Posted on 05/25/2015 8:25:11 PM PDT by dayglored
If you’re in a panic because the Internet told you that your shiny new SSD may lose data in “just a few days” when stored in a hot room, take a chill pill—it’s apparently all a huge misunderstanding, according to the man who wrote the original presentation all the fear is based on.
In a conversation with Kent Smith of Seagate and Alvin Cox, the Seagate engineer who wrote the presentation that set the Internet abuzz, PCWorld was told we’re all just reading it wrong.
“People have misunderstood the data that they’re looking at,” Smith said.
Cox agreed saying there’s no reason to fret.
“I wouldn’t worry about (losing data),” Cox told PCWorld. “This all pertains to end of life. As a consumer, an SSD product or even a flash product is never going to get to the point where it’s temperature-dependent on retaining the data.”
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The original presentation ... was intended to help data center and enterprise customers understand what could happen to an SSD—but only after it had reached the end of its useful life span and then stored at abnormal temperatures. It’s not intended to be applied to an SSD in the prime of its life in either an enterprise or a consumer product.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
"Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days"Your SSD solid-state hard drives are just fine, just like we suspected all along.
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Definitely ping-worthy.
I believe a FReeper pointed precisely this point out back on one of the threads on this topic a week or so ago. I can’t remember who, unfortunately.
Thing is, I would think I would have either seen that, or been alerted to it by Swordmaker or ShadowAce since I'm on their ping lists.
So either I've been oblivious (which I admit happens occasionally), or this is the first thread specifically on the debunking.
But if someone can find an earlier thread on the same topic, please post a link to it.
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I have repaired many computers with SSDs and I have yet to have any problem with one, others have. I worked with a guy who had someone drive over his laptop and the SSD survived. But if a SSD does fail, I don’t of any thing you can do or a place that can recover like you have for Hard drives. My best machines use a hybrid SSD for the OS and store data on two mirrored 3TB drives.
Yes it soytenly is!
Journolist goes pc.
Best way to store critical data is on mechanical drives in RAID configuration for mirroring. I love SSD drives I only install my OS and games to them.
I can't think of any reason not to do a RAID-1 mirror with SSDs either. Seems like it ought to work as well as with rotators.
??? Please 'splain?
As I suspected.
I guess I can move my AC setting back up to 74 from 60 now ...
Journolist == a group of leftist journalists who were found to be on an internet “list” where they pushed leftist persperctives.
PC: == play on “politically correct” and “personal computer”
So here the author of the “SSD’s lose memory if left unpowered” was pushing an agenda, just as the leftie journolistas do.
Or: don’t believe what you read, not only in the general press, but in the “personal computing” press.
Can’t be trusted.
I don't have RAID for /home, but I do make regular backups to an external USB HDD. That drive is only on the system to make the backups, it is not on normally. That reduces wear and tear on the external drive, and reduces the chances of a single mishap taking out the primary and backup.
I will let you guys know if I have data corruption on my 850 evo 250. I was using one as my main OS but migrated the data to an hardrive because of the update schedule for Windows 10 tech preview. Figured I would save the writes for when I am not rewriting it every two weeks.
Works for a server sitting on the floor, that can't be tipped over. For my laptop which I drop from time to time, I use SSD, and back it up as often as it changes (i.e. days). If I had critical data that changed more rapidly I would probably do an online backup.
SSDs warn you WELL IN ADVANCE of a failure. Any modern OS (i.e. Win7, 8, OSX, Ubuntu) have tools in the system to warn you of failures on SSDs. These failures usually occur during operations against sectors and manifest as read failures. Unless you're running your SSD at 95% or more capacity utilization, the firmware in a majority of SSD controllers have SMART warnings to notify of an impending failure.
You are doing yourself a disservice if you disregard hardware/SMART warnings from your system, esp. for HDD/SSDs!
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