expired Posted by rainking12 • Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 11:14 PM
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expired Posted by rainking12 • Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025 11:14 PM
Sam's Club Members: 5TB WD My Passport Portable Hard Drive (White)
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The average number of writes for an SSD in its total lifespan is rated for what a decent hard drive is rated to handle in just one year. And the mechanical operation for hard drives is rated in hundreds of thousands, if not millions of hours.
On top of this, an SSD can't be used for cold storage, as they require power occasionally to maintain data retention. Leave a mechanical drive on a shelf for 5 years and you'll still have data on it when you power it back up.
These are just some of many reasons why large data centers are still primarily using mechanical drives and even tape for storage.
For home backups, I'd advise the same.
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As of 2019.
It's likely a direct solder. But even if it wasn't, it's still only 5400RPM.
I don't know if they changed it but these use a direct usb connection rather than a sata to usb connection, so probably not shuckable
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Which matters little for a mechanical drive.
Even enterprise drives are only capable of around 270MBps.
When I plug in to laptop it just makes "click" sound and the fan runs fast and nothing accessible
I have so much data in the 2TB passport and do not know how to recover it
When I plug in to laptop it just makes "click" sound and the fan runs fast and nothing accessible
I have so much data in the 2TB passport and do not how to recover it
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