On Fri, 12 May 2017 20:36:44 +0200 Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My concern is with fail scenarios of some SSDs which die unexpected and > horribly. I found some reports of older Samsung SSDs which failed > suddenly and unexpected, and in a way that the drive completely died: > No more data access, everything gone. HDDs start with bad sectors and > there's a good chance I can recover most of the data except a few > sectors. Just have your backups up-to-date, doesn't matter if it's SSD, HDD or any sort of RAID. In a way it's even better, that SSDs [are said to] fail abruptly and entirely. You can then just restore from backups and go on. Whereas a failing HDD can leave you puzzled on e.g. whether it's a cable or controller problem instead, and possibly can even cause some data corruption which you won't notice until too late. -- With respect, Roman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
