From: Charles Jones <
charles.jones@ciscolearning.org>
> 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....)
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