[magicalhippo]

> Spinners fail more often than SSDs, but I don't remember any sudden failures with spinners

I've had a fair numbet of HDDs throughout the years. My first one, well my dad's, was a massive 20 MB. I've had a 6+ disk ZFS pool going 24/7 since 2007. Oldest disks had over 7 years on-time according to SMART data, replaced them due to capacity.

Out of all that I've only had one HDD go poof gone. The infamous IBM Deathstar[1].

I've had some develop a few bad blocks and that's it, and one which just got worse and worse. But only one which died a sudden death.

Meanwhile I've had multiple SSDs which just stopped working suddenly. Articles write about them going into read-only mode but the ones I've had that went bad just stopped working.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...