Re: SSD
I have to say, I've never had a HDD fail on me. Looking back at my records, the last one I bought was a 3TB job back in 2013, which has been used constantly since (now as a secondary disk to a primary SSD). I have two other HDDs in my desktop, which are both older, by several years, and others in a box in a storage unit somewhere which are only not used because their capacity is now laughable and / or they are IDE disks. The oldest probably dates to the turn of the century and I fully expect it would work if I still had a motherboard I could plug it into.
People talk about spinning rust failing, but the only components I've had fail in the last 20 years are a cheapo PSU, a 4GB stick of DDR3, and the power supply circuitry on a second-hand Dell laptop.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
