On Sep 16, 2009, at 09:11 , Yves Dorfsman wrote:
Tracy Reed wrote: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.Would you trust a drive that fails on write ?
If it reports an error and falls back to read-only, sure; it is, as noted, far more recoverable. Beyond that, well, that's what RAID is for.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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