In article , J. P. Gilliver (John)
wrote:


My main concern over SSDs is still of sudden and complete failure - more
so than HDDs (which I know - yes, from experience - _can_ go suddenly,
but _tend_ not to).

ssds are significantly more reliable than hard drives, but if they do
fail, they generally give warning (via smart) and often fail read-only,
which means you can still access your data.

Yes, I know everybody should be backing up their
system, on the hour, every hour, to a remote site, so it - but come on,
some of us want to _use_ our computers.

backups can happen in the background.

backups can also be scheduled to run in the middle of the night when
you *aren't* using your computer.

better yet, do both, to two different targets.

so: using an SSD, is there anything - either something in the SSD, or
third party software - that will _reliably_ give, say, a month's warning
of failure? (And by "failure" I include go-to-read-only.)

yes, via smart. you can also run a diagnostic every so often.

or just not worry about it since ssds fail a *lot* less than hard
drives do.