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 _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...