It is very likely that any person who has used their own desktop or mobile device for a few months has already experienced some sort of data loss, for which they wished they had copies somewhere of their (most) important files. 🧘♂️🤓
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That's why I regularly clone the SSDs that run my Arch/Artix Linux installations, so I don't lose anything important. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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I hope that such backups don't quickly tire out the lifetime of your (extra) SSDs which have limited write cycles! 🤗
If only HDDs can last long in the jungle! 😅
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Honestly, this new generation of NVMe SSDs have a very long lifespan. The cloning is only one write pass each time, so it really doesn't degrade them very much. I use each SSD, with its Arch/Artix installation, for months at a time, then I swap for another, and clone the last one. I also do clone the SSD that I'm currently using, when I make notable changes to the system in some way. Also HHDs do survive her just fine, but it became increasingly difficult to find new laptops that supported HHDs. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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