Scanner Tales: My SSD failed

[merlin]

Well, I learned the hard way not to keep all your eggs in one basket. I had a nice Dell AIO with a 1 Tb Hitachi drive.
The Dell fried and took the HDD with it. I had to send the drive out for professional data recovery, sadly I lost a bit over 500 Gb of data.
Consider, this ran 24/7 for 4 years.
My new machine, an HP Z840, Installed a Samsung SSD 1 Tb, and before I could even get the machine back to working order, the SSD died.
This time though, I had "EVERYTHING" backed up. Now I have a 1 Tb samsung pro for drive C, another for drive E, A Hitachi 4 Tb for drive F,
Western digital blue 5 Tb drive G, plus 2 external USB drives totalling 9 Tb. (both Seagate)
Best luck I have had was the Samsung pro SSDs, Hitachi 2.5 HDD, Western digital blue. These have exceeded their MTBF by near 2 times
They all still test good.
The conclusion is drives can fail, any time, no rhyme or reason. Keep your stuff backed up.

 

[merlin]

I prefer Micron products,

I have a new Micron 2 Tb SSD I have yet to test, but the specs look good.

 

[merlin]

I don't upload anything to the "cloud"

Sometimes I have to do that, but I encrypt everything that goes to cloud.

 

[RT48]

I have backups of my backups. I have scripts that run at night backing data from one backup drive to another. Another script checks to see if my wife's computer is running and if it is, the script backs up the data from her computer.

During my 12 years with Hewlett-Packard, I saw some really interesting data loss incidents. The most memorable was a company that had renovated an old red brick warehouse into beautiful offices with an amazing aquarium. This was when backups were done on reel-to-reel tape drives. One day the building caught fire to such an extent it collapsed into the basement. It turned out they had never taken any of the tapes out of the building. That was the end of that company.

Another HP customer had an incident where a wind/rain storm peeled the corner of the roof off, which happened to be right where the computer room was. It proceed to rain on all the equipment.

Later in my career, I was the IT guy at a high school. A few teachers had all their data like lesson plans and exams they had created on a flash drive so they could have it with them as they moved from classroom to classroom. Every once in a while there would be a frantic email from one of them saying she had misplaced the flash drive and asking everyone to let her know if they had found it. They all had storage space on the server but most of them never used it.

Even in later years, after we had implemented cloud storage on our servers, I continued to run the tape backups. There is no such thing as too many backups.

 

[ecps92]

I miss having a MicroCenter store less than an hour away from where I lived.

You can always plan a trip

 

[garys]

That would be Houston or Dallas. Houston is only 137 miles. About two hours and one stop at Buc-ee's.

You can always plan a trip