On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 01:17 -0700, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> The one advantage of an SSD vs a spinning USB Hard drive is that you can
> bump an SSD drive without worrying about the drive crashing, regardless of
> speed.
> Drawback is you usually want to keep it at most about 70% full so it can do
> proper wear levelling

And of course the big kahuna drawback is the price per gigabyte is 5x the price per
gigabyte of good quality spinning rust. This is no big deal when you need only a
half a terabyte, but when you need 10 TB SSD would cost you an extra $500:

https://www.newegg.com/black-wd101fzbx-10tb/p/N82E16822234427

https://www.newegg.com/kingston-a400-960gb/p/0D9-001B-00164

SteveT
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