On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 13:41 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > I've seen reports of SSDs failing too. I currently have 7 from various > manufacturers in place in different machines. Not had a single one > fail yet. I've had my fair share of rust go bad.
The people with the problems tend to make the most noise. Of course. > I realise my anecdotal evidence is meaningless, but so long as you > have good backups a failed SSD is about the same inconvenience as a > failed hard disk. Well that's good to hear, and as it should be. BTW, I never meant to imply that SSDs were bad in any way, just that they're not necessarily as good as one might expect of solid-state. And they're still quite a bit more costly than rust, byte-for-byte. Gordon. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
