I'm starting a new thread so as to not hijack the one about alternative kernels, but continue with something Volker raised.
On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > as others have written already: ssd. > > With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. > Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. > And that is first hand experience. I haven't yet started using SSD and have wondered what sort of a system should I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic failures. I am interested to hear what strategies people deploy to avoid data loss with SSDs, especially on laptops that don't have the luxury of raid redundancy. With spinning drives I use tar and rsync at regular intervals. There have been a few rare cases where a drive failed without prior notice - the last one after a reboot. In such cases I am prepared to live with the risk of some data loss, on machines where raid is not an option. -- Regards, Mick
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