Overheard a junior tech say SSDs don't fail and it bugged me all day

I was at Micro Center last Tuesday grabbing thermal paste and heard some kid telling his friend that SSDs are basically indestructible compared to HDDs. Made me think about how many people I've seen lose everything because they treated their boot drive like it was invincible. Had a client last year whose Samsung 860 Evo just up and died after 3 years, no warning, no SMART errors beforehand. Now I always tell my customers to mirror important data to another drive even if they use SSDs. Do you guys still push backups for SSD-only builds or is that overkill for most people?

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the_wyatt19d ago

Lost a crucial SSD once myself. Like, I was doing the 'smart' thing and had my important files backed up to a USB drive. Then I FORGOT to plug the USB drive in after a Windows update forced a restart. Woke up the next morning to the dreaded "boot device not found" screen. Had to explain to my wife why our vacation photos were gone and I looked like the biggest idiot on the planet. So yeah, I'm still Team Backup Everything.

james_campbell1219d ago

bro i had a 860 evo die on me after like 2 years and it just started throwing random bluescreens out of nowhere lol. no smart errors or anything beforehand, just dead one morning. i think people get too comfortable cause they hear "no moving parts" and assume it can't break. for most casual users i'd still say backups are overkill unless they're storing stuff they'd actually cry over losing. mirroring your whole os drive to another ssd just seems like wasted money when you could just sync important folders to google drive or something every few months.