RAID on Win 10?

[nlinecomputers]

So true.

 

[fencepost]

This may also be someone aware of the typical "SSDs don't have hardware failures as often, but when they do there's also no way to recover anything" situations that can arise. A failing/failed HD can be sent out for recovery and there's a good chance barring head crashes that data can be read from the platters. For a lot of SSDs, the failure symptom is "I'm a brick" - once upon a time I'd hear that SSDs should fail to read-only, but I think the Samsung Evo PRO line and possibly some Enterprise models actually do so.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Samsung EVO drives when they hit the write limit, shut off. Samsung Pro drives when they hit the write limit, go read only.

The thing is... I've never had an SSD hit the write limit!

 

[fencepost]

I'm not just thinking about Samsung drives though, I remember troubles with OCZ, looking at reviews to see if drives were using Sandforce controllers, all sorts of things like that.

Back in the days before ransomware, my feeling could best be described as "If there's only one copy of your data it had better not be on an SSD because there's too much chance that it'll go away irretrievably." That could still happen with a scraping head crash in a HD, but was less likely. These days with ransomware ready to encrypt or pretend to encrypt everything if there's only one copy of your data you might as well assume it's gone.

 

[Porthos]

These days with ransomware ready to encrypt or pretend to encrypt everything if there's only one copy of your data you might as well assume it's gone.

Amen.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Very true! Always have three copies of anything important. Warm, cool, and cold!

 

[HCHTech]

This may also be someone aware of the typical "SSDs don't have hardware failures as often, but when they do there's also no way to recover anything" situations that can arise. A failing/failed HD can be sent out for recovery and there's a good chance barring head crashes that data can be read from the platters. For a lot of SSDs, the failure symptom is "I'm a brick"

Haha - right! My canned speech about SSDs has a bit about the "90/10" ratio. When a hard drive goes bad, your statistical chances of getting data as long as you throw enough money at it is about 90%. 10% of the time, they're bricks. With SSDs, it's reversed. About 10% of the time you can get the data as long as you throw enough money at it, while 90% of the time, they're bricks. This speech sells a lot of backup solutions.