Timeline for How important is power loss prevention (PLP) in SSDs?
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| 10 hours ago | comment | added | vasin1987 | My HDD brick from power outage. | |
| yesterday | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| yesterday | comment | added | TooTea | @Ramhound If you have data worth anything (not even $1000), you need to invest in good backups first. There are many ways that can make you lose data (most frequently user error, but also SW bugs, ransomware attacks, and all of those are far more likely than power outages bricking SSDs), and UPSes cover just a small subset of that. Storage is so cheap these days that decent, daily or hourly off-site backups can be set up easily and cost just a few €/$/£ per month (unless we're talking about tens of TB of really precious data). | |
| yesterday | vote | accept | Shawn Eary | ||
| yesterday | history | became hot network question | |||
| yesterday | comment | added | Greg Askew |
some AI agents seem to imply that it could cost me $1000 or more to recover most of the data on a bricked SSD drive while recovering most of the data for a bricked mechanical HD is only maybe $400. Could "AI" not recover the "data"? Your research may have gaps.
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | Ramhound | Even with PLP you are not guaranteed that cannot happen. If you have data worth $1000 then you need to invest it the hardware and infrastructure to handle a power outage responsible and gracefully. I can tell this conversation isn't worth having so I am going to just slowly walk away from it. | |
| 2 days ago | answer | added | Marcus Müller | timeline score: 10 | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Ramhound | Why don't you just get a UPS? That way you don't have to worry. | |
| 2 days ago | history | asked | Shawn Eary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |