I could be wrong, but I believe the general consensus is along the lines of "SSDs for in-use data, it's quicker and wants to be powered on often. HDDs for long-term storage, as they don't degrade when not in use nearly as fast as SSDs do.

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PunchyHamster a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'd imagine HDDs also don't like not spinning for years(as mechanical elements generally like to be used from time to time). But at least platters itself are intact

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joezydeco a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been going through stack of external USB drives with laptop disks in them. They're all failing in some form or another. I'm going to have to migrate it all to a NAS with server-class drives I guess

	▲	Yokolos a day ago \| parent [-]
		At the very least, you can usually still get the data off of them. Most SSDs I've encountered with defects failed catastrophically, rendering the data completely inaccessible.