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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/redmera on 2025-01-17 16:52:35+00:00.
I've been using SSDs for ~16 years in multiple PCs and servers. I still remember my first one, Intel X25-M. Yesterday I got my first death; a Gigabyte 128GB M.2 NVMe I had as TrueNAS boot drive. Age almost 5 years.
Luckily I'm always overcautious so I had two of them mirrored and resilvering the boot drive in TrueNAS was as easy as resilvering a drive in normal pool.
What's interesting is that many people still use non-mirrored USB drives and justify it by saying the boot drive in TrueNAS is barely used. Which is true, of course, but nothing lasts forever.
What's troubling me is that I no longer have surplus drives on my shelf so the next death requires longer downtime. Also the drive prices have gone up since the cheapest locally available M.2 NVMe seems to be twice as expensive as 5 years ago.
Also I may have made a mistake with my Proxmox server. I have the two mirrored drives acting as both boot and VM storage. If I understood correctly the process of replacing such drives is more complicated the previously mentioned TrueNAS situation. I'm not too worried yet because my Proxmox drives are Intel D3-S4610, which I assume to be of higher quality than the cheap Gigabyte.