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.
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