Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unlikely to affect normal usage.
Intel SSD 320 is specced a useful life of at least 5 years at up to 20 GB host writes each day.¹ Intel has a rather low annual failure rate.² Once I read some article about numbers from other vendors with have been higher, but I do not remember what it was anymore. Still 0,4% annual failure rate for X25-M is 4 drives out of 1000 in one year and it is always good to keep a backup! I have not yet seen numbers for Intel SSD 320 tough and they have had and probably even still have a 8 MB bug. Search Heise Open for that, they have a good article on it. Well I am not more worried than with harddisks. And up to now not even one harddisks in my private use ever really failed. One Samsung 2,5 inch thought it had SMART errors after some sudden power losses, but even that one still worked. I had it replaced anyway. [1] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-320- specification.html [2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4244/intel-ssd-320-review Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202241559.28716.mar...@lichtvoll.de
