I just read an article on SSDs and their longevity. Apparently some company (I think Intel) tested a LOT of SSDs and found most of them could have over a PETABYTE of data written to them before they would wear out to the point of being useless.
I have a Seagate Backup 1 TB HDD that I've been using as an external drive since 2019 (after I broke my first one that has 10 thousand of my files on it... need to get that fixed because it still spins up but won't read) however I'm getting more and more paranoid that the thing is going to die on me for some inexplicable reason.
SSDs have no moving parts, that's the big point for me, disk drives can break from impacts (or the cheap ones can even have connection issues just being tilted on their side for a second).
So would a Samsung T7 or similar SSD drive have just fine reliability so long as it was plugged regularly so as to not lose its charge? I use my drive all the time so the thing wouldn't go for longer than a week at most without being powered on.
SSDs are expensive but I'd much rather just sell the two Seagates I have right now after wiping them and put that towards a Samsung SSD than risk breaking one or the other because they have moving parts.
Also if y'all are wondering I keep everything on my external drive so I can move from computer to computer and work from any machine I'm at. So protecting the drive or at least making it less likely to break if it falls off my desk for some real stupid reason is paramount for me.