From: Charles Jones > It will be nice when SSD prices come down (and capacity goes up). No > more mechanical failures, then just have to worry about when the flash > wears out. Still a downside in that even if a mechanical drive fails, > you can sometimes still get the data back by swapping the logic board or > having a professional data recovery service get the data off the > platters. If an SSD drive fails it's probably hard to find a specialist > with the equipment for munging data from the flash. I see a business opportunity for people with the appropriate equipment, though it might take a year or 3 for there to be enough potential customers to make it worthwhile. (Me, I'll continue to keep my most important information chiseled onto granite tablets, which have multi-thousand-year MTBF....) -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss