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by dspillett 1467 days ago
> Imagine buying a 4TB SSD, copying your stuff over from the old HDD to have it die 2 months later.

This is one if the reasons why I have local backups (as well as off-site backups) on a RAID mirror containing drives from distinct manufacturers. I don't trust any of them not to pull this sort of crap, hopefully if I buy two from distinct sources they might not fail at the same time.