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SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm (www.tomshardware.com)

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SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm::A data recovery specialist from Austria uncovers several possible hardware reasons for the Extreme Pro's failures.

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[-] simple@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I'm fed up with external hard drives. Every single one I get fails within 2 years. I got a Western Digital "my passport" 2TB hard drive and it only took a year to start making loud clicking noises (failure imminent). Are there any ones out there that are actually built to last, or am I just unlucky?

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 40 points 1 year ago

Get a cheap 2.5" SATA enclosure or an m.2 enclosure and throw a real SSD in it. That's what I've been doing and I get significantly higher speeds for significantly cheaper, as well as not having any fail on me

[-] axo@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Dont use SSDs for offline backups. The flash storage can experience random bit flips if not powered on every now and then.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you have more info?

The minimum specs I've seen for NAND flash chips are 10 year retention time at room temperature.

Being powered on isn't enough to change this, the firmware would have to be actively reading, erasing and writing blocks of data to refresh them. I'm sure there are some that will do this, but it would increases some other data loss risks, wear rates and power draw; so I suspect (?) it's not universal.

[-] axo@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

My professor told me this fact in class, but upon searching for papers I did not find anything to support it.

So probably you are right.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Me having some datasheets that claim one thing doesn't mean it applies to everything and every implementation. Your prof might be right.

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