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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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QLC for long-term storage ? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking for more silence and more importantly: Less vibrations and humming noises, I'm thinking about replacing my 5 HDDs (10 to 16TB) with SSDs.

Considering Samsung QVO 8TB for their capacity at an acceptable $ / TB price.

But...

I'm a bit wary of QLC.

What's your experience with long-term QLC usage ?

I'm not looking for performance (have 2 NVMEs for that), but reliable, long duration hoarding of medias. Though, there will be quite a bit of writing / overwriting.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Samsung + QLC is a bad combination, don't expect them to be reliable as cold storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Samsung easily has the best and most reliable consumer SSDs. Their manufacturing, firmware, and history for SSDs is very good.