On: Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are ba...

[_dh54]

When ssds fail they don’t lose your data, they just become unwritable. What you’re doing is unnecessary and wasteful.

[magicalhippo → _dh54]

I've only had two SSDs fail on me, and in both cases they died without any warning. Didn't get discovered during boot or anything. Two different brands, very different uses.

So while they _can_ fail in a graceful way, that's not been my experience.