I've just read the CodingHorror blog article, and all its Comments - and there is some discussion about the point I was making about SMART monitoring.
I'm also intrigued with the 3 year warranties and MTBF equal to that of conventional hard drives, for some SSDs. Of course nothing in (most) blogs is authoritative. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 1:42 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: Sudden violent death of SSDs 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
