Originally Posted by rharv
So this is marked resolved?
What was the solution?
Last I saw he was still testing
Not sure. His last message he was thinking it might've just been bad luck.

Originally Posted by Joseph Land
Originally Posted by Matt Finley
In the period I used Western Digital, I had their Black series. I’ve had some Toshiba SSDs fail, the portable type. I use only Samsung drives now.

Like you I have a ton of old hard drives, and one of those adapters that you can plug in any drive and connect it by USB. My caution about hard drives is that the magnetism can degrade, so I would not want my only backup to be on a spinning drive.

One thing I do on a periodic basis with any spare SSD's I use for backups, are to plug them into the docking station at lest once every couple of months. SSD's, from what I understand, keeps the 0's and 1's in place because of a small charge. Without a periodic refresh charge, there is a chance you could loose some important data that makes the file readable.
I missed this before. "Periodic refresh" is not necessary with SSD's - NAND memory has data retention on the scale of decades. Similarly with hard drive magnetism, I have recently used hard drives that are a quarter of a century old that haven't been used for 20+ years, and all the data was intact. In general it is good advice to periodically replace your backup medium though.

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