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Hi,
New to digital photography I am... but 35+ years of building and maintaining PC's I have...
I run my own computer business and have of late been very alarmed at the number of SSD's failing without warning
Normal Hard disks tend to deteriorate over time and failures are mostly gradual, SSD's tend to fail without warning !
Data can often be recovered relatively easily from Normal disks and even if specialist help is required it is generally successful if a bit expensive
SSD's however seem to die completely requiring specialist help, which from my experience is not that successful and very expensive - for example a recent 120Gb SSD had a 60% success for a whooping £900 !
So my warning is, if your using SSD's (particularly M.2,) then ensure good backups to spinning disks, too many of my customers have discovered this to there cost !
New to digital photography I am... but 35+ years of building and maintaining PC's I have...
I run my own computer business and have of late been very alarmed at the number of SSD's failing without warning
Normal Hard disks tend to deteriorate over time and failures are mostly gradual, SSD's tend to fail without warning !
Data can often be recovered relatively easily from Normal disks and even if specialist help is required it is generally successful if a bit expensive
SSD's however seem to die completely requiring specialist help, which from my experience is not that successful and very expensive - for example a recent 120Gb SSD had a 60% success for a whooping £900 !
So my warning is, if your using SSD's (particularly M.2,) then ensure good backups to spinning disks, too many of my customers have discovered this to there cost !