aevawhich is "better", XFS or BTRFS? i only care about file system resilience on shitty SSDs, so like, which one is going to be slower at letting my photos be randomly destroyed by bit flips? #linux
cancel@aeva every time I've seen an SSD fail, it's been the controller burning/dying, not the NAND, which makes the entire drive inaccessible.
@aeva if you have an SSD that has random bit flips i'd be really interested to know more lol
@cancel I've chewn through quite a few at work, but I've also found that png files occasionally get corrupted on SSDs, and as an SSD ages it gradually starts producing recoverable file system errors until it they become numerous enough that i have to take the disk offline. switching over to a different disk as the main one and keeping the old one for reference when it starts to get bad seems to be somewhat effective at slowing down the rate of failures on it
@cancel also it is worth noting that the majority of SSDs I've destroyed were samsung SSDs that were manufactured in 2019 or early 2020. seems like something happened around then that caused a dip in quality control
@aeva …I think 😬 I know some of them fail to flush to NAND if you kill the power too fast
@cancel I'm impressed they're still alive, but I really do recommend making backups of them if you haven't already
@aeva yeah they’re all backed up. Also I have done hashing to see if stuff has changed at rest and never seen anything wrong. My really old 840 (SATA) had catastrophic read errors after a few years due to a firmware bug that was eventually patched.
@cancel what IT told me was we've had a lot of failures with the drives we bought around then, and it may be that their longevity sharply decreases with poor cooling, which would be consistent with the machine I've been murdering them with
@aeva well same for me but mostly because I don’t want the tips of my fingers chopped off
@cancel anyways enough about my work computer.
my laptop also runs very hot, but that is because framework's finest have vapor for brains. I'm pretty sure the CPU is always throttling under any load because the part of the air circulation is blocked by lap under normal use. it gets quite hot when i'm doing anything interesting with it.
@cancel it also doesn't help that I've consistently filled them up with AAA scale Unreal Engine stuff and also had a habit of putting a large pagefile on them so I can actually cook the dang game
@aeva I have page file disabled in windows lol (64g ram in that machine from 2018, 128gb in my new one from October)