Styze,
> Bill, I don't know what you mean about reliability > 1 I back up every night > 2 I've heard no negative reports about reliability > 3 My son sells laptops. He has a dozen broken hard drives of the > conventional variety > > Is there something I should know about SSD drives? Was wondering if the mfg promotes very high MTBF test results, and/or if you've read user feedback from those with relatively long term experience using solid state drives. With hard drives, some mfg's claim thousands and thousands of hours MTBF, but then - as you and others report - those numbers can't really be trusted. Solid state devices are very trustworthy, I'm sure, but power must be one big exposure. If we pull the plug on a spinning drive, most likely we wouldn't lose the drive, but a solid state drive would be in real trouble, unless the device includes it's own UPS/battery? I guess we'll never get away from daily backups, regardless of device type. But daily backups do leave as much as a whole day's activity exposed to loss, which is scary enough (for me) to stay with spinning drives until solid state proves itself to be the more reliable. On the benefits side, it's easy to imagine the thrill of "it feels like next years model" Very cool! Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1fff022d5e7348bca8bb8c9456a4b...@bills ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
