On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:28:32AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey spake thusly: > Actually, I'm not sure how fair the MTBF is. Because a SATA drive will > eventually fail just from being powered on, while the life of a SSD is > basically determined by how much you write to it.
Also consider that when a SATA drive dies your data is gone. When an SSD drive dies as a result of too many writes it just goes read-only. Vastly different "failure" modes which you may want to consider if weighing MTBF. I know which one I prefer. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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