[Discuss] SanDisk Extreme SSDs keep abruptly failing—firmware fix for only some promised | Ars Technica

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

If you use rsnapshot or back in time or the many other rsync based
backup/snapshot tools onto a Unix/Linux file system, you effectively have
an incremental backup system. They use hard links to link all the
duplicates

On Thu, May 25, 2023, 5:10 PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 5/25/23 12:15, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> > Buy an
> > internal drive with known good capabilities and pair it with a cheap
> > ($10-$15)
> > dollar external case.   You can even get m.2 NVME to USB external
> > cases pretty cheaply.
>
> You convinced me. I just ordered an M.2 SSD and I hope a matching USB-C
> external case, for backups of my laptop. I was cheap and only got a 2TB
> SSD (cheap!), but my laptop only has a 1/2-TB drive in it, so though I
> would like to have more room for incremental backups, I suspect I'll
> survive.
>
> As much as I am suspicious of SSDs I suspect it will be more reliable
> than these damn WD drives that keep failing.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> -kb
>
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