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The ssd reliability tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussion of how trustworthy solid-state drives really are and how Windows users can judge drive health. The tagged thread examines SMART status and explains why a "Good" verdict is not a clean bill of health, noting that drives log attributes such as temperature, power-on hours, data written, and error counts that deserve closer reading. It also points to Windows-native ways to check drives and corrects claims about SSD and HDD diagnostics. The focus is practical: understanding what health monitoring can miss and how to verify an SSD's condition rather than relying on a single status label.
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    ZFS Stripe on Proxmox: Why One SSD Failure Can Destroy Your Pool

    A two-SSD stripe looks like a free win. You get more capacity and more speed from drives you already own. How-To Geek editor Nick Lewis did exactly that with two retired 500GB SATA SSDs in a Proxmox server, and he now regrets it. His account is a good case study in what "pooling" means in ZFS...
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    SSD or HDD SMART Status Says Good? What Windows Drive Health Checks Can Miss

    A "Good" SMART status feels like a clean bill of health. It isn't one. A recent MakeUseOf piece by Shaheer Khan makes that case for SSDs and HDDs. This article keeps its useful advice, corrects two claims that don't hold up, and adds a Windows-native way to check your drives. What SMART is and...