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> hdd's can mechanically fail, but so can everything, and so it's a no-op. What? That's not logical. That's like saying the chance to win any bet, no matter h
by TylerE 4y ago
> hdd's can mechanically fail, but so can everything, and so it's a no-op.
What?
That's not logical. That's like saying the chance to win any bet, no matter how long the odds, are 50/50, you either win or you lose.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIncorrect. It's like saying what it did say, which is that that everything fails, and if one thing has one failure mode, some other thing just has some other failure mode. The fact that an ssd has much less chance of suffering a mechanical problem is not an important fact, since the problem is loss of data, not the particular mechanism of loss of data. An ssd certainly loses less data, in the short term, in a laptop. And then when you remove that ssd or store that laptop, as little as 5 years later you can have flipped bits, which is a thing that absolutely does not happen with a decommissioned hdd from a desktop. The same goes for use in a nas where a given file may get written once and then never re-written but possibly read multiple times, and neighboring cells read multiple times. Over time the ssd loses bits, the hdd does not. The advantages of an ssd are just a local maxima.
- TylerE 4y ago> An ssd certainly loses less data, in the short term, in a laptop. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. You haven't provided even ordinary evidence.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI haven't made any extraordinary claims.
- TylerE 4y agoI give up. I literally quoted the claim at you.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIf you think that it's an extraordinary claim that an ssd loses less data than an hdd in the short term in a laptop application, you should indeed give up.
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