Hey gais, pretty much the title. So far I was buying HDDs every few years always having a backup, had some drives fail tho. Today I was visiting a local data centre and they are using these cool but expensive high TBW enterprise TLC SSDs, (Samsung, Micron, Kioxia).
I know shiz about data preservation, if I buy one of those, do you think they are going to last longer without failing? If I lets say give them a power up once a while?
But it’s probably still way cheaper to just swap bad sector HDDs.
In my experience, HDDs fail more often than SSDs, but when HDDs fail they usually do so gracefully, losing just a few sectors at first. When SSDs fail, it is usually catastrophically.
Additionally, my guess is that HDDs are probably less likely to fail if sitting on a shelf, unpowered, for a long time, than if they’re powered up and running. But SSDs might be more likely to fail if sitting on a shelf, unpowered, for a long time.