Summary: SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups.
And sometimes, they come back from the dead.
Fascinating report. I find maddening that in this day and age — where it seems that everything must be digitalised otherwise it’s not progress — we’re still having to deal with fundamentally unreliable storage media. Backup is a pragmatic solution for the moment, but really, the real progress should be to design and manufacture truly reliable media to store digitalised content. Backup should be reduced to a remote, ‘just in case’, totally optional activity, not something you should worry about on a daily basis.
