What SSD manufacturers have you gone for? Some can be seriously dodgy - the OCZ one I had literally worked perfectly then crashed after N minutes of use, or at random.
Intel are the gold standard for SSD reliability. Corsair are pretty darned good too. Also, considerable progress has been made on reliability in the last couple of years as SSDs have become more and more mainstream. It's a fast-moving world and things are always getting better. Consider the main issue, though - SSDs have an average failure rate in large-scale deployments of around 2.5%. Hard disks have AFRs of about 5%. Statistically speaking you're better off with SSDs. I'd personally be very happy putting a mission-critical machine on an SSD. If you're really concerned about reliability you're using RAID-1 in that mission-critical machine anyway, which will catch write/read corruption unless it happens on both in the same manner at the same time (though it should never, ever happen) and will catch failing disks. James On 24/01/2012 21:35, Rob Landry wrote: > I haven't had good luck with SSD's so far. They fail subtly; a file that > was there yesterday suddenly isn't accessible any more. > > I ran my email server on an SSD for a couple years, but I went back to a > mechanical disk last year after I started getting strange I/O errors. > > Another machine that I set up to handle RBDS messages at a transmitter > site died after six months; it now has a conventional disk too. > > A netbook I bought with an SSD failed after two years; I replaced the SSD > and it's back working again... but for how long? > > So far the only machines with solid-state storage I haven't had problems > with are SheevaPlugs.. and none of them are more than two years old yet. > > I wouldn't trust an SSD in a mission-critical machine. > > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
