On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM Dan Purgert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote: > > hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :) > > > > I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them > > to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there > > was some recommendation to leave some part of the SSD unallocated > > and not formatted as part of a file system so any parts that > > failed as bad blocks or wore out could be allocated from these > > unused areas. > > The SSD has this onboard (and, IIRC, always has) -- for example, a 1T > drive may have 100G of extra blocks you cannot allocate. > > > I do like having multiple backups on the different SSDs just > > in case one of them decides to fail on me. No signs of any > > troubles so far. > > Longterm (powered-off) backup is actually better on spinning rust; as > SSD are somewhat more susceptible to bit-rot when powered off.
LTO-6 for the win! And don't forget to send the tapes to Iron Mountain for offsite backup. Jeff
