On 11/13/15 18:05, Devin Reade wrote: > --On Thursday, November 12, 2015 10:13:34 PM -0500 Nick Holland > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> And if you deploy a lot of SSDs, [...] Some models are good, >> some are crap, you can't say which is which until after they are out of >> production. > > In other words, the same as with mechanicals. At any given time, the > "best" manufacture of two years prior is shit today and vice versa.
Exactly. Finally, someone who's been around more than a few years. :) I laugh to myself every time I hear someone say, "I only buy brand X drives, the rest suck!". Sign of a (relative) child. > Hope for the best and plan for failure ... > > <* peers over at the case of narrow SCSI drives sitting on the spare > parts shelf and wonder if they'll still spin up; they probably will *> and before tossing them, let developers know -- 4, 6 and 9G narrow scsi drives are few and far between, and needed to keep some old hw running. (I'm guessing everyone has more than enough 2G and smaller disks). Nick.
