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[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

I recently had a SSD fail just out of waranty. An instant and complete write-off.

As always the best stategy for data security is to make sure you have multiple backups of important data.

Cheers!

The likelihood of catastrophic unrecoverable failure of a storage device is proportional to the square of the difficulty of recovering the lost data.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

The likelihood of catastrophic unrecoverable failure of a storage device is proportional to the square of the difficulty of recovering the lost data.

LoL!

I would also factor in the importance of the last item being worked on multiplied by the inverse of the time between the failure and the deadline for completion!