https://www.howtogeek.com/your-ssd-might-be-quietly-dyingheres-how-to-make-sense-of-ssd-health/
That’s a good point. I used to think the SSD health percentage was enough to tell whether a drive was still safe, but there’s definitely more to it. Performance changes, unexpected freezes, errors, or files suddenly taking longer to access would make me pay attention. I’d rather keep regular backups than wait for the health indicator to drop.
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I used to keep buying hard drives and old ones failed and then I needed backup drives that would fail. Rather than spend money on new backup drives I opted for online backups. One company caused me problems so I switched to Backblaze. Their default backup is not quite what I needed so I adjusted what was backed up in the app and excluded aa few things (like my email files) which I can recreate easily.
For me the service is with the price as I have terabytes to back up. I manage people websites and have multiple backups, along with some files and software all the way back to Windows 95. Te system backs up continuously and I can either download files back from their site OR if I need a large or all file copy to recover, I request a drive be sent to me. I pay for the drive and I have 30 days to use it. If I don’t return it, it is mine to keep because I already paid for it. If I send it back in the 30 days, I only py shipping (and they suggest not using expensive shipping). They also have a blog where (because they use all sorts of disks in their storage) they publish statistics of which disks had the lease failures, etc. You can use that info to buy better disks for yourself.
Crystaldiskinfo will show issues with your drives.
Backblaze Latest drive stats: Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2026