SSDs

[Alan Dayley]

An SSD from a well known manufacturer will last longer and be faster than
any rotating hard drive. The controllers and firmware in the drive are
designed to compensate for wear-out problems. Buy something from Intel,
Samsung, OCZ or STEC and you will be just fine.

(I was a firmware engineer for an SSD company for 11.9 years. I don't have
time right now to give a detailed answer. Just trust me. ;-) )

Alan

On Apr 2, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Nadim Hoque <nadimhoque at gmail.com> wrote:

Technically they are supposed to last just as long as regular hard drives
but again the problem is that no one really tested in a production
environment. From what I hear (I may be wrong) but most people use the ssd
essentially as a cache space and even in enterprises they do. This is what
I suggest you do with the SSD so that if the drive does die, you don't lose
your important data.


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a question about SSDs.  I've read that they like the USB thumb
> drives can be written to a certain number of times before they fail.  What
> is the expected lifetime of an SSD?  They're terribly expensive if they're
> only going to last 2 or 3 years.
>
> Derek
>
> --
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> not there, I carry on as usual."
>
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