On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 19:03:40 UTC, Jan Knepper wrote:
On 09/18/2012 03:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
?? I don't have such problems with my computers, and I tend to
run them
for 5 years before upgrading. The HD failure rate is about the
same as
in the 80's. Of course, we no longer have to deal with
floppies that get
corrupted often.
The most common failure I've had are the power supplies,
they're still
as bad today as in the 80's.
Never had a power supply failure... But all my power supplies
can handle a lot more than they are used for.
The #0 failure I see is HD... :-( I have had the necessary
disks die on me in the last 20 years...
Neither have I... in the past 10 years (young dev here).
However, I've had 3 SSDs crap out on me in less than a month...
out of 3... on 3 different computers. I'm on my fourth now. 4
months running.
The worst part about an SSD failure is the utter and total lack
of warning. One day, everything is green. The next day, the bios
can't see it. Game over.
I've had friends ask me to "investigate" blue screens and
intermittent errors. The HDD was dye-ING, but the data/os still
salvageable. Not so with an SSD.
