Great! Thanks for all the responses. On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Pete Lancashire <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rich said all that needs to be said > > > As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered > > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > > > Samsung was recommended here. I see $150 for their 850 EVO 480G, and > they > > > have a 5 Yr. warranty v.s. 3 Yr. for the other brands in that price > > range. > > > But a number of reviewers report terrible interactions with their > > warranty > > > support. Anybody here have similar issues? Is the likelihood of failure > > > low enough to ignore this issue? (My plan is to have the SSD my only > > > drive, and backup of data but not a duplicate of the system.) > > > > Denis, > > > > My experience since I bought my first Seagate 20M ST225 in 1985 is > > having > > one drive fail about a dozen years ago ... a WD Black 500G which the > > company > > immediately replaced. I suspect the truism that if electonics don't > quickly > > fail they'll last a long time still holds. > > > > I have the same Samsung 850 EVO 480G SSD in my Dell Latitude E5410 > and a > > smaller Samsung 160G SSD in my Dell Latitude 2100. I don't think about > > failure of the drives. > > > > As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered ... except > for > > the time involved in replacing the failed drive and re-installing your > > favorite distribution. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
