Hi! On 2009/12/15, at 17:16, Henrique Gomes wrote:
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...
All drives shall die. I'm just saying that, for now, SSD dies younger. :) Intel has recently issued a recall of a large amount of drives due to problems in the firmware.
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.
The Dell guys told me! ;) <http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904455 >
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" *
I really, really hope so. Yours Miguel Arroz
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