Kirk Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 19:26 -0500, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> ... snip
>   
>> The jury still seems to be out on the question of SSD reliability, 
>> partly because there are so few data points compared to rotating disks.
>>     
> ... snip
>
> I just replaced a friend's Samsung 60GB SSD. It stopped booting Windows
> XP. I did a Windows check disk and it was able to recover the drive,
> then Linux dd to a new hard disk, and she's back in business. As soon as
> the new hard drive is broken in, I'll try to stress test the SSD to see
> what's up. I have no idea how long the drive was working, I'm guessing a
> couple of years. I prefer the older technology, and maybe save some
> money to put into a RAID or decent backup.
>   
Now, on Windows, I have no confidence whatsoever that "bad drives" are 
actually bad
at the hardware level.  I have had so many people say "oh, that power 
surge blew out
my hard drive", when really what happened was the file system got 
trashed by a power
failure at a critical moment.  Linux seems to be much more resistant to 
such problems.

Jon

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