Rick Stevens wrote: >> SSDs are fast, but when they die, it's typically sudden, with no >> warning, catastrophic and irrecoverable. Tom Horsley: > You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK, > one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went kaput > with no warning). I haven't had a HDD do that, yet (tempting fate by saying that). I've a few that have always had a bad sector or two, that I've kept on using while testing out Linux installs, because they were left in the box. Here's a pecularity: When you have a master and slave on parallel ATA port, where one drive has a fault, it impacts on the performance of both drives. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
