Hi Gordon,
On 27 September 2013 14:05, Gordon Scott <gordon@???> wrote:
> On reliability, though, I've seen more than a few posts from people who've
> had 'brand' SSD drives replaced several times in startlingly quick
> succession because they've failed yet again. I'm not sure why that should
> be as flash itself is usually pretty reliable. SSDs (etc.) have redundancy
> to circumvent errors, and indeed to deal with the strange fact that flash,
> unlike most semiconductors, actually _does_ wear out.
>
I've seen reports of SSDs failing too. I currently have 7 from various
manufacturers in place in different machines. Not had a single one
fail yet. I've had my fair share of rust go bad.
I realise my anecdotal evidence is meaningless, but so long as you
have good backups a failed SSD is about the same inconvenience as a
failed hard disk.
Oh, and I always have swap, even on SSD.
KiB Mem: 8056628 total, 6771356 used, 1285272 free, 98768 buffers
KiB Swap: 8267772 total, 2461452 used, 5806320 free, 1116208 cached
Cheers,
Al.
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