On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:03 PM, na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote:
> Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You will not be happy with reliability of SSD >> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal >> e.html > > After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit > shows up in a comment more than halfway down the page: > > | Over at blekko, we've had 3 SSD failures after 1.5 years, out of > | 700 drives. These are Intel X-25M 160G2 drives. > > That's the sort of figure you'd expect for spinning platters, too. Also worth noting those aren't even the "enterprise" model. The E series are supposed to last much longer.