Mastodawn

🔌🗄️ Oh no! Those #SSDs you stashed away like a squirrel in winter are losing data, because apparently, they need power to function. Who knew storage devices weren't magic boxes? ⚡️🔋
https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/ #DataLoss #StorageDevices #Technology #PowerManagement #HackerNews #ngated

The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data

SSDs aren't ideal for long-term data storage

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Khurram Wadee ✅Apr 7, 2025

So, I bought an SSD recently and stuff seems to be copied over with much more fidelity, not to mention at much higher speed!

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#Hardware #StorageDevices #Unix #GNU #Linux #Fedora

Khurram Wadee ✅Apr 7, 2025

My experience with #FlashDrives recently has been mixed. I have no problem in encrypting them with #LUKS, using #cryptsetup or with formatting a partition with #Btrfs, for instance, using #gparted and doing other tinkering with #Gnome #disks. But the problem has been with the actual drives themselves. The cheaper ones seem to have quite a few bad sectors, etc. and so they’re not really reliable for medium term storage.

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