I was curious whether these claims were true or not, so I looked it up.
https://images.samsung.com/is/content/samsung/assets/pl/memo...
Damn. 3 months for my SSD.
https://images.samsung.com/is/content/samsung/assets/pl/memo...
Damn. 3 months for my SSD.
Younger me thought I was smart repurposing my SSDs as shockproof 2.5" external backup drives. Suffice it to say that I was a year abroad, and came back to losing all my data because of it. I was able to recover some parts, but most of it was gone.
Only buying CMR surveillance-class HDDs now for my backups. They're limited to 8TB for a 3.5" sized HDD, but that's far better as a compromise than the nightmare of losing all digital copies of tax documents that you have to keep - mandated by law - for at least 10 years.
When that happened I had to renew my ID, and had to find the original birth certificate in paper form in the hospital's paper archive to get a signed copy, and had to go there with multiple relatives to prove my identity. Just to get my ID renewed. That incident surely made me realize how important backups are.
I have no way to confirm if this is true, however someone years ago told me that surveillance drives have inferior error correction and are optimized to not block recording in case of errors because they work on the assumption that you are storing videos, therefore if you miss a frame that's not a big problem if the rest of the file is fine. That of course would be a big issue in case of other data, especially if compressed. Again, no proof of that, but it's enough for me to avoid them for archival until I can be sure the above turns out as untrue.
Being used without too much writing -- just fine.