Whenever I see questions about SSD I am reminded of the following (a bit dated but probably still relevant, unless someone can reference an update?):
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html -Amos On Dec 31, 2012 5:28 AM, "Gilboa Davara" <gilb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's a 180Gb Intel 520 Series SSD with firmware version 400i. > ... > > I have an ext4 filesystem on it. > > Semi-OT: A word of friendly warning: > I recently bricked a 120GB Intel 520 w/ the latest firmware (not sure > if it was 400i) w/ ext4 on Fedora 17/x86_64. (Second bricked SSD in 12 > months) > A *very* short power shortage crept under my APC UPS and bricked the SSD. > Amazingly enough, the power shortage didn't crash the machine - which > continued working off the main HDD software RAID array. > Luckily for me I rather distrust SSDs (see below) and use it as fast > cache-of-sort, so I only lost a couple of hours of work. > > IMHO SSDs have one huge drawback: Unlike HDDs that can be partially > recovered from more-or-less any type of damage by recovering data > around bad sectors or replacing a fried controller board, SSDs complex > write scheme and complex firmware usually means that any type of > damage / firmware error / etc usually bricks it with more or less zero > chance of getting the data back. > On the top of that, we (as in all of us) have 40+ years worth of > experience in predicting the life cycle (and death) of HDDs. There's > far less information about the life cycle of SSDs. > > In short, backup. A lot. > > - Gilboa > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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