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IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





No Gravitas posted:

- Won't die on me suddenly, making my data unreadable. Sudden failures are fine if I can get the data out myself. Unreadable data is fine too, provided I get a couple of days ahead notice of doom (I know this is impossible to get).

You should never, ever assume this about any storage media. Just because you don't run into a write-endurance failure doesn't mean there won't be another reason that the drive decides to fail on you and not let you read anything on it. That's what backups are for.

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