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.
If you're looking for data stability, look at how business does it. You can never guarantee reliability, so opt for redundancy instead.
Rather than just a single disk, Get 2 in RAID1 and replace a disk whenever it fails.
RAID sounds complicated, but it's actually pretty simple to set up. Most modern motherboards have support for it nowadays, you just add the 2 new disks in the BIOS and it will pool them together.
Without firmware update 990 is a time bomb
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-990-pro-firmware-update-released-ssd-health
counter strikes new bomb.
The 990 is faster but the PM897 will probably outlive it.
The PM987 would have a 21.024 PBW endurance rating compared to the 2.4 PBW of the 990 Pro. Not sure if it has PLP though but it looks like it has the capacitors for that feature based on the pic from TPU.
Backed-up data is safe data.
I would use Samsung PM897 rather than 990 pro, simply because PM897 is enterprise drive, and it should be more reliable.
Also, compare both drives DWPD, the higher it is, the more reliable drive is. https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/dwpd
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
I hope it helps a bit.
Usually enterprise drives have the dwpd in their specs, and consumer grade not likely to have it.
