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> this is the trouble with ssds, they just die As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s My take away was that SSDs are
by ZoFreX 12y ago
> this is the trouble with ssds, they just die
As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s
My take away was that SSDs are somewhat easy to predict failure on. I'd take predictable failure over unpredictable any day.
- n0body 12y agoin my experience hdds have signs they're going to die soon, they go slow, click a lot, get smart errors, things get corrupt etc. where as with flash media it all seems fine, but suddenly isn't. not that this is a rule, i've seen hdds fail instantly for no reason as well, and flash media throw a massive wobbler but still be recoverable. but in my experience this is not the normal behaviour. but who cares as long as you have backups and a contingency plan?
- bluedino 12y agoYou can see the sector reallocations and things happening with the SSD's as they wear.
- ZoFreX 12y agoGoogle's study[1] on spinning disk drives found that predicting failure from SMART data is not very accurate. [1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
- rasz_pl 12y agoYou can almost always recover data from broken HDD, you will never be able to recover from SSD failure (one exception is fried fuse).