A useful video on storage media life expectancy

I find it's like wine: keep it in the cool dark - except for near granite - and your data will last longer.

Says the man living in the Granite City/ :)
 
Interesting.

I am going to do exactly what he said an individual shouldn't do, but I have found SSD's to be far less reliable than HDD's. Over the years I lost one HDD, but have lost loads of SSD's. And it's not to the NAND wearing out, either, it's to general hardware failures.
 
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