I've not been burned by 16TB HDD (DOA) and 8TB SSD (seems to be crapping out after being filled ~halfway). I'm very frustrated by this.

The SSD is an older Samsung model that uses SATA, since I'm mostly using this as a data archive. Seem SATA options are becoming rare for SSDs.

Whenever I try to copy ~1GB of data to it, it will revert to a ReadOnly mode in the middle of the copy process. This is on linux. I'll probably try some more troubleshooting of it, but I'm not too confident about it being my 'data archive' drive anymore.

From some searching, it seems that the RO mode switch is a sign of the disk going into a protected-failure state. Anyone have any experience with this? Recommendations for data archive drives of this size that are not ridiculously expensive?

  • culpritus [any]
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    11 months ago

    Thanks for the offer. One question I have is about the long term viability of SAS. It seems like everything is moving towards NVMe/PCIE/U2 for the newer products. I'd hate to invest in a SAS RAID only to have the drive supply options dry up or get extra pricey in a few years time.

    What's the sweet spot for RAID interface at the moment? Is SATA starting to be phased out? It seems like it's mostly just for lower end products these days.

    • CoolYori [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      I would avoid SAS as it has the stigma of being enterprise gear so you will always pay out the ass. The main reason for SAS is so you can run dual controller systems and if you lose a controller/backplane you dont halt and catch fire. There are other advantages to SAS but they really do not affect the home gamer at all.

      I personally dont see SATA going away at all. The standard is too solid and ubiquitous. I would say you are safe with sticking with it on bulk storage in the long term. If anything we would see higher speeds of it come out before they kill it.