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I've had 2 ssd's fail on me. To the point that the data is unrecoverable, ssd's fail worse than hdd's from my limited experience so far. Hope you have backups e
by mitchty 12y ago
I've had 2 ssd's fail on me. To the point that the data is unrecoverable, ssd's fail worse than hdd's from my limited experience so far. Hope you have backups either way.
I also have at least 2 2.5" hard drives that are running on 3 years. Anecdotes make for poor data sets. (note one of those 2.5" drives is getting smart errors now after 12800 hours of use, so probably going to die in short order)
Besides, with spinning rust getting to 8TB now, hard drives are just taking the old place of tape in a proper backup solution. That is memory->flash->hdd->tape->optical (last two could possibly be the same layer).
- zaroth 12y agoWould you trust a drive to carry that kind of lifespan? I think solid state will ultimately make the rest irrelevant, and in just a few more generations time. Then again, when storage and compute are integrated, even solid state should some day become irrelevant. So I just think 'hard drives' are going away, and 'store' will be a resource, like 'compute', and most likely implemented in flash for bulk store, and backed up, on separate flash.
- mitchty 12y agoCarry what kind of lifespan? Generally I don't trust anything anymore and have a 2 local copy + one offsite policy for data I care about. If I don't have that I don't care enough about the data generally. As for storage and compute you mean memristors or fpga like? Solid state has a rather huge size difference to overcome. Hard to beat spinning rust at the moment and at least near future for bulk storage.