<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Many thanks to all for the very valuable feedback.</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I will keep the existing Sammy 850 in place, but I will also travel with a bit-for-bit clone on one of my spare 1TB SSDs as a just-in-case cause I would hate being caught far from home without a spare image in hand:-) </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Lord, talk about 1st-world concerns...</div><i><font size="4"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></span></font></i></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><font size="4"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Ron S.</span></font></i></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 1:51\u202fPM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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I'm told that,<br>
- SSD will hold charge for 10 years when un-powered.<br>
- If powered, internal chip will monitor the bits and do their
magic.<br>
So, if write cycle is within spec, then it will work indefinitely,
subject to chip failure rate.<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">It's the literal age of the SSD I am
really worried about -- 9+ years since mfg, 2.5yr of
power-on hours. </div>
<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Cells holding an electrical charge
reliably after 10 years say, how much faith should I have in
that?</div>
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