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.

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