SSD drives. Guaranteed disasters waiting to happen?

RichA wrote:
Yes, yes. We know. ONLY the operating system. But
other programs, etc., hinge on it and some are resident
on the SSD.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

You probably should have actually read the article you cited.

They last longer than regular winchester hard disks.
And it is unlikely that an average user could wear one
out in 3 *decades* if they buy a cheap one. Buy your
kid a good one, and it will be working fine when the kid
hits 100 years old.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:26:20 -0800, (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:

RichA wrote:
Yes, yes. We know. ONLY the operating system. But
other programs, etc., hinge on it and some are resident
on the SSD.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

You probably should have actually read the article you cited.

They last longer than regular winchester hard disks.
And it is unlikely that an average user could wear one
out in 3 *decades* if they buy a cheap one. Buy your
kid a good one, and it will be working fine when the kid
hits 100 years old.

Which is probably more than you can say for the kid.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 8/10/2016 9:26 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
RichA wrote:
Yes, yes. We know. ONLY the operating system. But
other programs, etc., hinge on it and some are resident
on the SSD.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

You probably should have actually read the article you cited.

They last longer than regular winchester hard disks.
And it is unlikely that an average user could wear one
out in 3 *decades* if they buy a cheap one. Buy your
kid a good one, and it will be working fine when the kid
hits 100 years old.


About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was advised that SSDs
were not yet reliable. I am thinking about upgrading my machine. How do
I know which is a crap SSD and which is reliable?


How do I know

--
PeterN

In article , PeterN
wrote:


About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was advised that SSDs
were not yet reliable.

you were advised wrong

I am thinking about upgrading my machine. How do
I know which is a crap SSD and which is reliable?

intel, crucial and samsung.

PeterN wrote:
On 8/10/2016 9:26 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
RichA wrote:
Yes, yes. We know. ONLY the operating system. But
other programs, etc., hinge on it and some are resident
on the SSD.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

You probably should have actually read the article you cited.

They last longer than regular winchester hard disks.
And it is unlikely that an average user could wear one
out in 3 *decades* if they buy a cheap one. Buy your
kid a good one, and it will be working fine when the kid
hits 100 years old.


About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was
advised that SSDs were not yet reliable. I am thinking
about upgrading my machine. How do I know which is a
crap SSD and which is reliable?

How do I know

Read the article cited.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

PeterN wrote:
On 8/10/2016 9:26 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
RichA wrote:
Yes, yes. We know. ONLY the operating system. But
other programs, etc., hinge on it and some are resident
on the SSD.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/t...heyre-all-dead

You probably should have actually read the article you cited.

They last longer than regular winchester hard disks.
And it is unlikely that an average user could wear one
out in 3 *decades* if they buy a cheap one. Buy your
kid a good one, and it will be working fine when the kid
hits 100 years old.


About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was
advised that SSDs were not yet reliable. I am thinking
about upgrading my machine. How do I know which is a
crap SSD and which is reliable?

How do I know

BTW, what difference does it make? The worst ones will
apparently outlast you by several decades.

--
Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On 8/11/2016 9:32 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN
wrote:


About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was advised that SSDs
were not yet reliable.

you were advised wrong

I am thinking about upgrading my machine. How do
I know which is a crap SSD and which is reliable?

intel, crucial and samsung.


Of the three you mention, are there different models,and sizes?
Also, which of the three are crap, and which are decent.

--
PeterN

In article , Floyd L. Davidson
wrote:

About two years ago my HDD went. At that time I was
advised that SSDs were not yet reliable. I am thinking
about upgrading my machine. How do I know which is a
crap SSD and which is reliable?

How do I know

BTW, what difference does it make? The worst ones will
apparently outlast you by several decades.

buy a chinese noname ssd and see how well that theory works out for you.

In article , PeterN
wrote:



I am thinking about upgrading my machine. How do
I know which is a crap SSD and which is reliable?

intel, crucial and samsung.

Of the three you mention, are there different models,and sizes?

yes.

Also, which of the three are crap, and which are decent.

those three are decent and it's a continuum, not an either/or.

if you want crap, there are noname ssds available on ebay.

intel generally is the fastest, but also expensive. it's targeted more
for enterprise users who need the speed and where swapping out an ssd
is more of a hassle (think servers), not end users.

crucial and samsung are more affordable and very reliable, but there is
still the occasional firmware bugs, however, those generally get
resolved. samsung had an issue a year or two ago where over time, it
got slower. trim on crucial had an issue but that was resolved.

no matter what you get, always make backups. ssds are very reliable,
but like everything, not perfect, and there's always *other* things
that can go wrong.

In article ,
RichA wrote:


I've had a half-dozen regular hard disks fail in less than 5 years so I'm still not sure about SSD.

why would hard drive failures be relevant? they aren't.

the reality is that ssds are *far* more reliable and *much* faster than
hard drives, especially the ssds that aren't bottlenecked by sata.