Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:54:27AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: > > Do bear in mind that SSDs are not designed for long term unpowered > > data storage, unlike conventional HDDs, so that could be a > > consideration if you're intending to use these SSDs stored outside > > of a computer and unpowered, tape replacement style. Apologies if > > you knew that already. > > > I have read that, but have not experienced it personally. What failures I've > had I can blame on filling a low capacity card up so it didn't have room to > do its housekeeping,
You really can't draw any conclusions about modern SATA / SAS / NVMe SSDs from the behaviour of micro SD cards! It's completely different technology. Thanks, Andy
