hey it's that time again.
do you have data? that you like? is it backed up? do you have automatic backups you've checked are actually happening?
in multiple locations?
have you done a test restore to make sure the backups work?
*even an extra copy on a flash drive is better than no backups*
@NanoRaptor Answering my own question now that I understand the topic a bit better: The closest number to what I had in mind is UBER, Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate and for most modern HDDs and SSD is somewhere between 10^-13 and 10^-16. In practice the actual Raw Bit Error Rate on operations can be as low as 1/1000, but SSDs use a bunch of Error Correction Codes to validate and fix data as they read it, so you end up with the UBER number.
As a fun extra. the question as posed is kinda invalid: SSD longevity, even under ideal circumstances is heavily reliant on the load of read/write operations, so basically the amount of ops translates to SSD age, unlike HDDs.
Refs used:
* Data Longevity and Compatibility
* Data Retention in MLC NAND Flash Memory: Characterization, Optimization, and Recovery
https://web.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/pubs_folder/parh19f-ebdt-data-longevity-compatib.pdf
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/flash-memory-data-retention_hpca15.pdf
This and other things about SSDs here: https://www.alkoclick.space/things-i-learned-about-ssds
Nanoraptor
Alex Papageorgiou