Do you know the 1TB SATA SSD？How much you really need to worry about SSD reliability.

Are you have the 1TB SATA SSD？Well, you’ll never be able to go on vacation again without toting your SSD along. It’s incapable of surviving for two weeks without you, poor thing. The truth is, yes, under disastrously unfortunate environmental conditions (we’re talking Biblical), your 1TB SATA SSD could lose data retention just a few days after it’s pulled from your PC.

If you pulverized it with a sledgehammer or threw it in a vat of sulphuric acid—almost-as-likely scenarios. To the point: I’ve re-tasked SSDs after a couple of years of sitting on the shelf, and annoyingly—I still had to secure-erase them to get rid of the old data.

Actually, digital doesn't mean forever

NAND can’t retain data forever, or even as long as other types of media (hard drives, optical) because it stores data as tiny, trapped electrical charges. The cages that contain these charges aren’t perfect—they leak, or de-trap in industry lingo. True, they leak extremely slowly, but they leak nonetheless.

Besides, NAND and SSDs have never been touted as archival storage, but those degradation facts are rarely highlighted. That’s why we have this discussion every couple of years. That and the persistent consumer misconception, aided by misleading advertising and the lack of visible deterioration, that digital somehow means forever.

Don't worry！You can back up！

To archive data, store it online, store it to hard drives (write the data, unplug them, and store them in a safe place), or even use M-DISC write-once archival optical media. Yeah, and you thought optical was dead. Also, always follow the rule of three and keep a working copy of your data, a backup copy, and a copy of the backup.

Some question about 1TB SATA SSD：

Q：What is the difference between SATA 3.0 & SATA 2.0 specifications?

A：The Serial ATA-International Organization has launched what is often called “SATA 3”, a 6 gigabit per second (Gbps) standard. The older SATA II specification has a maximum speed of 3Gbps.

Q：I received an alert when I tested my SSD with HDtune. What should I do?

A： Early SSDs do not support this feature, so it is possible that the alert may be a false alarm. However, if the product shows an alert when tested, it is recommended to contact customer service for further confirmation.

From：ADATA、Networkworld