You all paint a grim picture. Maybe I'm happy with my cheap, slow SATA technology.
"Real" HDDs have a lot of precautionary software in their firmware - if that's the right way to put it - that manages flaky magnetics in the sectors, etc. It's quite a mature technology, I'm led to believe. It beggars belief that the SSD internal management software wouldn't have some warning system, for want of a better expression, that allowed disk cloning or backup (if it hadn't been done). I'd assume that there is a significant proportion of disk space (RAM) allocated to data redundancy, as with spinning HDDs. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Minutillo Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 12:49 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Sudden violent death of SSDs I think he's referring to the fact they fail catastrophically without warning. They don't start to make a weird noise. They don't get bad sectors for 2 or 3 days before you replace them. One they work fine. The next they do not. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-sca le.html Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge Blog: http://codermike.com On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: Piers What is particularly different about SSDs that you referred to "the kind of sudden violent death that only SSD's can really manage"? _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Piers Williams Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 4:38 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Cloud backup I use Skydrive to keep working files in sync between my various laptops and workstations (though seems a bit more fussy about firewalls than Mesh Beta was), but for backups you need a real backup solution. You accidentally delete a file on a sync service and you'll soon realize the difference (as Mike M will attest). I eval'd Mozzy, but eventually went with Crashplan. I'm paying for the unlimited, multi-machine option, which seems to work pretty well. After the wife's laptop died the kind of sudden violent death that only SSD's can really manage I'm a bit more sensitive to backing *all of them* up, and this is definitely a step up from occasionally burning DVDs and sticking them in my desk drawer. Crashplan also has a mode (usable in the free version) where you can backup to a friend / family's PC (if they've got lots of free space). Even better if they're in a different country, far from the impending disaster. One limitation with Crashplan is that (mostly due to the licencing model, but there are some technical reasons too) backups from UNC shares are not supported (possible, just not supported), so your NAS devices are exposed. (As an aside: one of these guys should team up with one of our major ISPs to offer an integrated, unmetered service. They'd clean up I reckon. Anyone from IINet listening?) On 1 June 2011 09:14, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]> wrote: Stephen, Windows Live Mesh works great. It's free for up to 5Gb and uses the Windows SkyDrive to store the data: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh?os=other It's more of a sync service than backup (if you delete a file it gets deleted from the cloud storage and it does not store older versions of files) I just love it. I sync data with multiple computers and has basically zero CPU usage during sync. The other services is DropBox. Quite good. Corneliu On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Luu <[email protected]> wrote: You could also sync/backup your stuff to Windows Live SkyDrive - http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive On 1 June 2011 10:30, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: Stephen, Crashplan looked great until I noticed they have some kind of per-machine restriction on all but the top plan. This make no sense, as if I buy the space, then I expect to be able to use from absa-bloody-lutely anywhere, I mean, it's the space that counts, not where it comes from -- Greg -- piers more pedantry at http://piers7.blogspot.com/
