On Thursday 10 September 2020 15:49:21 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users 
wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2020, deloptes wrote:
> > William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> > > With these new SSD drives, though, I am in uncharted territory. I
> > > passed on a much cheaper Samsung, but eventually got a WD 1 TB SSD,
> > > which so far (fingers crossed) has performed like a champion.
> >
> > if it matters, use them always in pairs (raid) otherwise backup, cause
> > there are no spinning disks inside that you can extract and recover.
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Sage advice. Advice I follow with redundancy.
> I back up important stuff to a "backups" directory, then /home to another
> internal drive, which is raided with another. Then to 2 external drives.
>
> I also make DVD backups.
>
> I lost data once, about 22 years ago. I had to start from scratch. Never
> again.
>
> Kate
>
Yeah, I *thought* that I had learned that lesson. I was redistributing 
materials on my various hard drives so that I could organize like with like. 
In the middle of this, when the flash drive failed, followed by the source on 
this hard disk, I was caught without a backup. 

Bill
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