On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Miguel Arroz wrote: > You are being a little hard on hard drives. Hard drives today are very > reliable, most of them work for 3 years without a glitch (there is a > Google-authored paper about this, and I think they have a very large sample > ;) ). I also do assure you that, in average, hard drives last longer that a > lot of computers, specially Apple crappy laptops. All the people I know, but > one, with plastic MacBooks had a failure on the machine that was related to > some electronics part, and not the drive. Only one of them burned the drive > before the Mac itself.
I can tell you that I've never lost a drive on mac.... Yet. You know the saying: It's not a matter of 'if' but of 'when'. On other systems I have a lot of stories to tell... > Ask around how reliable are SSDs compared to that, and you will be very > surprised. I'm not talking about data corruption only, but the drive itself > to completely fail. If you compare the return rate of the same model and > brand of a laptop, with two different drive options (one with HD, other with > SSD), the SSD return rate is much higher. I really would like to know some numbers but I suppose that right now that's a just a case of "somebody told me" because there just hasn't been enough time to do serious studies. > I believe "SSD" is included in the "for years" category, but those years > still did not went by. "SSDs are closer than what you think" * HG *"Objects are closer than what you think" Steve Jobs in the 90's _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-deploy mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-deploy/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
