On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:33:10 PM Jon Elson did opine: > 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
Can some of that perceived resistance be credited to us linux folks generally being more likely to have a decent UPS that shields our boxes from a lot of that stuff? Add that as a whole I think we pay more attention to surge arrestors and ground bonding than the typical winderz user too. I sure have in here, and I know well that there have been occasions when this whole rooms electronics has bounced 50 kilovolts or more due to a nearby strike. But it all bounces in unison as its all plugged into a single duplex, so there is little if any real voltage between the various pieces in here. I did get a bit of hair re-arranged one night, but my hands were 3 or 4" away from the keyboard so it didn't do anything but jiggle my hair, and the computer just kept on computing. I had some light bulbs to replace in the rest of the house though. But the huge majority of it can be credited to ext3 with journalling enabled I think, and I don't believe that any windows file system has ever grown that ability. At least in the rare instances when I have had to rescue the windows machines in the neighborhood, I have seen zero evidence that it has such. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved. -- Thalassa (in Anne Mulhall's body), "Return to Tomorrow", stardate 4770.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
