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I did buy one, then it broke. Once you factor in the re-installs the latency of spinning rust looks a bit better.
by Danieru 14y ago
I did buy one, then it broke.
Once you factor in the re-installs the latency of spinning rust looks a bit better.
- mdonahoe 14y agoMy SSD makes for a nice drink coaster.
- Karunamon 14y agoDon't buy garbage SSDs, and make sure your system is utilizing them correctly. Putting swap on an SSD = horrible idea.
- reitzensteinm 14y agoIt's not a good idea for an MLC drive, but a decent SSD should fail into read only mode when enough sectors are lost.
- Danieru 14y agoIt wasn't even the flash that failed, the controller stopped my bios from posting until the sata polling timed out. Yes it was a cheap SSD, but the difference between the high end and low end should be performance. Not "breaks vs !break". When that is true I'll buy another SSD. That is not to say that SSDs are "bad", they are just not for me, yet. I like my computers to be low maintenance. I stopped fiddling with hardware for performance a few years ago.
- kgtm 14y agoActually, putting swap on an SSD == great idea. If you need swap, there aren't any better places to put it. I quote from [0] (for Windows), because it is fairly large wall of text and the relevant point might be missed: _Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?_ Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well. In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that > Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1, > Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB. > Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size. In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD. On the other hand, attempting to defragment an SSD is truly a bad idea, and pointless at that. Unless you are defragmenting free space, which does get important as the SSD fills with data. [0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-...
- Tobu 14y agoThis deals with performance, but not durability. The system would pump data into swap at a fast rate during a thrashing situation, wearing out the SSD.
- reitzensteinm 14y agoWhich SSD did you buy? I'd only trust an Intel at this point, though even they're not much more reliable than a traditional hard drive on average (now that they've shipped a few buggy firmware revisions).
- driverdan 14y agoAll drives can fail. Not including servers I've managed I estimate I've had more than 10 hard drives fail, all of which were well below the manufacturer's stated MTBF. My first SSD (low to mid range) failed within the first 3-6 months but the replacement has been going for almost 2 years now.
- mauriciob 14y agoThe replacement is always better... somehow.
- j_s 14y agoIs this similar to how lost things are usually in the last place you look for them? It does make sense that people would continue replacing something until it worked!
- chimeracoder 14y agoSure, but there's no doubt that SSDs on average wear out faster, which makes them that much more expensive a choice. It may be worth it in the long run, but you have to keep that in mind when making the choice.
- ethermal 14y agoalmost all of my spinning disks in the last 20+ years have failed. Some right away, some in a few months, some in a few years but they all have failed.