Rich said all that needs to be said > As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > Samsung was recommended here. I see $150 for their 850 EVO 480G, and they > > have a 5 Yr. warranty v.s. 3 Yr. for the other brands in that price > range. > > But a number of reviewers report terrible interactions with their > warranty > > support. Anybody here have similar issues? Is the likelihood of failure > > low enough to ignore this issue? (My plan is to have the SSD my only > > drive, and backup of data but not a duplicate of the system.) > > Denis, > > My experience since I bought my first Seagate 20M ST225 in 1985 is > having > one drive fail about a dozen years ago ... a WD Black 500G which the > company > immediately replaced. I suspect the truism that if electonics don't quickly > fail they'll last a long time still holds. > > I have the same Samsung 850 EVO 480G SSD in my Dell Latitude E5410 and a > smaller Samsung 160G SSD in my Dell Latitude 2100. I don't think about > failure of the drives. > > As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered ... except for > the time involved in replacing the failed drive and re-installing your > favorite distribution. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
