On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 21:37:06 monarch_dodra wrote: > 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.
I have an rsync cronjob back up my home partition nightly so that the chances of losing that data are slim (though I don't back up all the rest of my data from my many hard drives unfortunately - it would take up too much space). It's saved me on a number of occasions from corrupted or lost data even _without_ hard drive failures. Regular backups are a must IMHO, though I think that most people consider it too much of a hassle to bother with unfortunately. - Jonathan M Davis
