**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:20

**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:20

see shy jo @joeyh@octodon.social

My laptop's Liteon SSD seems to corrupt early written blocks
when the disk gets near to full. (Or randomly, not sure.)

Preparing to upgrade away from this POS.

**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:22

**see shy jo** @joeyh@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:22

(Via full OS reinstall since my OS doesn't track every OS file with hashes, which is kind of ridiculous.)

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:23

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Mar 13, 2018, 23:23

@joeyh I'm still scared to switch to an SSD given how often friends complain about corruption. I can't tell if I'm being absurd or not.

I wonder if there's a study out there about the relative corruption rate of spinning platters vs SSDs?

**Lars Wirzenius** @liw · 2018-03-14T05:54:56Z

Lars Wirzenius @liw

@joeyh @cwebber careful, I am still likely to wax rhapsodic about the virtue of backups.

Mar 14, 2018, 05:54 · SubwayTooter · 1 · 3

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Mar 14, 2018, 05:57

**Christopher Lemmer Webber** @cwebber@octodon.social · Mar 14, 2018, 05:57

@liw @joeyh I think it's true that a serious problem in my setup is that I don't have a good way to detect corruption. Probably I can blame that on dumb rsync backups and also using ext4 instead of btrfs. I should probably fix both, and soon.

**Iain R. Learmonth** @irl@mastodon.technology · Mar 14, 2018, 07:35

**Iain R. Learmonth** @irl@mastodon.technology · Mar 14, 2018, 07:35

@cwebber @liw @joeyh i use zfs on my backup server, so at least i can detect corruption in the backups.