Alexander Kobel <n...@a-kobel.de> writes: > recently I was afraid about my SSD for the same reason, so I asked our > institute's IT service staff who cares for some dozens (hundreds?) of > laptops and desktops with SSDs. > > They say that even power users of hibernation with high rate of data > turnover didn't manage to damage their SSDs lately; the horror stories > for the first generations of SSDs seem not to apply anymore.
Well, I am not sure I have significantly later than first generation... === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Samsung based SSDs Device Model: SAMSUNG SSD PM810 2.5" 7mm 128GB Serial Number: S0NRNEAB524258 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0000f0 000000000 Firmware Version: AXM08D1Q User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: Solid State Device Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS, ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s) Local Time is: Wed Jun 1 12:23:20 2016 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled > You still have to take a bit of care (try to have some empty space, > and run fstrim once in a while), but other than that you should be > fine. As you experienced, the SMART information is rather unhelpful > unless you have additional context by the manufacturer; more often > than not, the only semi-reliable source are the manufacturer's own > toolkits (which, unfortunately, are hardly available on Linux). > That being said: which form factor/connector do you need? SATA, 2.5". > I can ask if I can grab something. Many parts from few-year old > machines are sorted out regularly here. Not sure about hard disks, > though - there might be regulations for data protection that prevent > them from giving out old drives. Sure, it would be nice to keep in mind. I'm not really sure what the expected lifetime of the disk I have is. Maybe I just need to keep making backups in sane intervals and otherwise am still fine. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
