Other than price, which will be more reliable over the long haul? Ever since I first used a flash chip back in the early 2000s the worry about wearing out the storage elements has always been on my mind. But with the wear leveling techniques built into SSDs and the increase in storage cell robustness, that may not be a legit fear any more. You still have ESD failure modes but that would apply to rotating disks. You can put the disks from a failed drive into a good drive and recover from a disaster sometimes. But other than that, it would seem to me that the rotating media is more likely to fail.
From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:06 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Rotating Media Large scale backup storage? I can build a server with 40 * 8TB 3.5" HGST spinning 7200 rpm drives, divided up into several Linux mdadm RAID6 arrays with hotspares, for considerably less money than the same capacity built out of 1TB 2.5" SSDs. There is now a Samsung 15TB SSD that costs ten thousand dollars... http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/1/12342696/samsung-pm1633a-ssd-15tb-storage-drive-specs-price On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Is there a good reason to continue to use rotating media going forward?
