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> SSDs dies faster than spinning disks. That's so wrong it's hilarious.
by Kuinox 3y ago
> SSDs dies faster than spinning disks.
That's so wrong it's hilarious.
- adrian_b 3y agoWhich of SSDs or HDDs die faster depends strongly on their workload. For a write-intensive workload, SSDs certainly die much faster than HDDs. Otherwise, HDDs die faster, but modern SSDs die much faster than flash memories made with old technologies, which can have a lifetime of 10 to 20 years, while few SSDs can be expected to have a lifetime much longer than 5 years.
- Kuinox 3y agoDefine "dying" because I prefer my SSD staying in read only mode than my HDD becoming unreadable overnight.
- lupusreal 3y ago[dead]
- imtringued 3y agoYour SSD controller gets corrupted and you can't read the data anymore.
- Kuinox 3y agoHDD also have a controller.
- toast0 3y agoAll but one of the many SSDs I've worked with that failed did so by refusing to respond to any commands from that point forward. The other one was actually probably ok, but did a big reallocation and performance was trash during the process, so we replaced it. Some of my hard drives that failed when that way, sudden unexpected disappearance from the bus, but most of them provided signs of upcoming disaster, which could likely have been averted if the signs were considered in a timely way. The failure rate of the SSDs was much lower than the HDDs, but the means of failure was more troublesome.
- Kuinox 3y agoI wonder what brand of SSD did you bought ? I only have a single SSD that "died": the read/write performance became miserable for some reason, but it had no issue other than that.
- toast0 3y agoMostly Intel datacenter SSDs, but a smattering of other brands, including Kingston and others I forgot. I do have an Inland 1TB with garbage performance that I can't figure out why, but it was super cheap, so at least I didn't pay much for it.
- justinclift 3y ago> I prefer my SSD staying in read only mode Most of the time the SSD just completely stops, never to communicate with anything ever again. :( "Read only" mode would be a welcome improvement. :)