I don't think SSDs are obsolete - you probably get a better cost/storage ratio with 2.5" SSDs over NVME, and some boards only have 1 or 2 NVME slots. For everyday use, most people would probably not notice a difference between a SATA SSD and a PCIe3.0 NVME.Wow, not bad, I almost consider SSDs obsolete with nvme's available, but the size is hard to ignore. A likewise aggressively priced 8TB unit would make me seriously think about getting one, but I'm glad the prices are trending in the right direction. I'm still rocking a 6TB Iron Wolf for media storage, so an upgrade would be nice. I would probably swing for an 8TB SSD if it was the price of this 4TB, so maybe in a year or two
I don't think SSDs are obsolete - you probably get a better cost/storage ratio with 2.5" SSDs over NVME, and some boards only have 1 or 2 NVME slots. For everyday use, most people would probably not notice a difference between a SATA SSD and a PCIe3.0 NVME.
Wow, not bad, I almost consider SSDs obsolete with nvme's available, but the size is hard to ignore. A likewise aggressively priced 8TB unit would make me seriously think about getting one, but I'm glad the prices are trending in the right direction. I'm still rocking a 6TB Iron Wolf for media storage, so an upgrade would be nice. I would probably swing for an 8TB SSD if it was the price of this 4TB, so maybe in a year or two
I nust bought a WD Black 2TB spinner...paid less for it than I did for an 80 GB spinner 20 years ago. (and about half what I paid for a 1TB WD Black spinner 10 years ago.) I know, I know...spinner drives are obsolete, but they're still good for data storage.
They should be taken out every few months or at least once a year and refreshed with something like DiskFresh: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.htmlI have many portable hard drives that I store in my gun safes. They are spinners too. Its just the way it is.
They should be taken out every few months or at least once a year and refreshed with something like DiskFresh: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
Magnetic fields can get weaker with the passage of time, leading to soft sectors that may become harder to read for the disk head.
They should be taken out every few months or at least once a year and refreshed with something like DiskFresh: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
Magnetic fields can get weaker with the passage of time, leading to soft sectors that may become harder to read for the disk head.
They should be taken out every few months or at least once a year and refreshed with something like DiskFresh: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
They should be taken out every few months or at least once a year and refreshed with something like DiskFresh: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html
Magnetic fields can get weaker with the passage of time, leading to soft sectors that may become harder to read for the disk head.
You must have clicked some ad link. Here's the link: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFreshSetup.exeI followed this link and downloaded "puran utilities". I installed it, and it turned out to be some kind of twain image utility. Still have'nt figured out what happened. I sure hope it ain't a virus.
You must have clicked some ad link. Here's the link: https://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFreshSetup.exe
Checked with Windows Defender and no virus found.
Apparently, it no longer contains the "diskfresh" utility, however I found this utility separately on the net without all the other rubbish. It doesn't mention win 10, only earlier systems, so it must be pretty old. Haven't tried to use it yet, nor how I would know if it's working, unless it makes an obvious program failure. Found this:
DiskFresh is compatible with Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/2012 including 64 bit versions. It provides native support for 64 bit versions.
For such a basic simple thing, this is like pulling teeth.
Only for HDDs. SSDs do the necessary refresh of their NAND flash cells as part of their maintenance routines when the SSD is idle. Another software that I have personally had great success with is HDD Regenerator. It has allowed me to copy data from failing hard drives by "fixing" the bad sectors temporarily so the drive doesn't get stuck when reading from those sectors. However, I found out the hard way that the fix isn't permanent. If HDD Regenerator fixes a bad sector, it means that the HDD's disk surface is degraded and you should replace it after getting data off of it and either retire it or relegate it to keeping non-essential data.Since there are so very few of these "refresh" programs, I'm wondering if they are really needed? It seems odd to me.
You should check out SnapRAID. You will have to dedicate a parity disk(s) to it and in return, you get peace of mind as it will fix errors silently and ensure that your data integrity is not compromised.I have five hard drives that I keep backup images on. That's why I was interested in that disk refresh utility, but it didn't work out. I guess they dropped it, since it is no longer in the utility package.
You should check out SnapRAID. You will have to dedicate a parity disk(s) to it and in return, you get peace of mind as it will fix errors silently and ensure that your data integrity is not compromised.