The Absolute Need To Have a Backup Protocol If You Use an SSD
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:43 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
I would also say, please never ever defrag an ssd, as this adds huge numbers of rewrites to the various cells and can shorten the life.- Absolutely agree with the former, and I don't think Windows 10 or 11 even allow a defrag to run on SSDs. It's not relevant to SSDs, and they have built in TRIM functionality that is roughly analogous that gets run instead. On the latter, I vehemently disagree, and so does Microsoft: Microsoft support policy for the use of registry cleaning utilities Why you should NOT use Registry Cleaners (on answers.microsoft.com) -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 19045 There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. ~ John Rogers |
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Brian's Mail list account
I would second this. In 2015, I had my first desktop with a 256gig ssd. It was one of those that looks like a giant chip that plugged into the motherboard.
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In 2020, the machine refused to boot one day. Luckily, I had a western Digital conventional back up on a USB backed up by windows itself each week. My computer tech friend bought a new Samsung of the sort that looked like a normal drive and restored to that, and its worked ever since, but on approaching Samsung about a way to recover the old drive, he was told that the model had been discontinued and tools to recover it often did not work very well, so we did not bother. So, maybe I was just unlucky, who knows, but I suspect you get rogue drives where the reliability is suspect. I would also say, please never ever defrag an ssd, as this adds huge numbers of rewrites to the various cells and can shorten the life. It does not speed it up in any case, though occasionally, say once every few months it can help to clean the registry out, but compacting what is left might also not be a good idea. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vogel" <britechguy@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2022 4:59 PM Subject: [chat] The Absolute Need To Have a Backup Protocol If You Use an SSD On Technibble, there is a fresh topic entitled, Samsung 870 Evo -- is it a dud model? ( https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-is-it-a-dud-model.89090/ ) . In it, member lcoughey, who does data recovery for a living, says this (in post #5 ( https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-is-it-a-dud-model.89090/post-742691 ) of the topic): " SSDs are great for speed and portability (don't crash from being moved), but are super unstable thanks to low quality of NAND technology. Basically, use SSDs for OS and quick access data, with a very solid backup routine. Hard drive recovery success rates = usually around 90% SSD recovery success rates = < 20%" So, if you have an SSD and care about your data and all the time and effort you've taken in setting up your computing environment as a whole, and you don't want to risk either losing it all or having to do all the work over again, you'd better have a routine backup protocol in place. And that's regardless of whether you can do a recovery from the backup without sighted assistance or not. Having a backup that someone, anyone, can perform the recovery from is what's critical. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 19045 *There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.* ~ John Rogers |
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JM Casey
Thanks brian. Sound advice, as usual.
From: chat@nvda.groups.io <chat@nvda.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
Sent: November 21, 2022 12:00 PM To: chat@nvda.groups.io Subject: [chat] The Absolute Need To Have a Backup Protocol If You Use an SSD
On Technibble, there is a fresh topic entitled, Samsung 870 Evo -- is it a dud model?. Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 19045 There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. ~ John Rogers |
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On Technibble, there is a fresh topic entitled, Samsung 870 Evo -- is it a dud model?.
In it, member lcoughey, who does data recovery for a living, says this (in post #5 of the topic): "SSDs are great for speed and portability (don't crash from being moved), but are super unstable thanks to low quality of NAND technology. Basically, use SSDs for OS and quick access data, with a very solid backup routine. Hard drive recovery success rates = usually around 90% SSD recovery success rates = < 20%" So, if you have an SSD and care about your data and all the time and effort you've taken in setting up your computing environment as a whole, and you don't want to risk either losing it all or having to do all the work over again, you'd better have a routine backup protocol in place. And that's regardless of whether you can do a recovery from the backup without sighted assistance or not. Having a backup that someone, anyone, can perform the recovery from is what's critical. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 19045 There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. ~ John Rogers |
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