On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 07:03 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > SSDs haven't been around long enough, I feel, for their claimed > longevity to be proven. While that is true, it is hard to predict future performance of a new product. > And no matter what it is, SSDs have a ticking clock, counting down > towards failure. I just have a conceptual problem with hardware > that's guaranteed to fail at some point. There's no expiration date > on regular HDDs. That's not true. Look at the warrantee period for a HDD, that's as much trust in the product as the manufacturer has. Not very long. I've had drives running for 20 years, and nary a problem. I've had others go bung really quickly, getting unreadable sectors, or their own generated heat is enough to make them erratic. I've got some old drives that began to not want to start up. I had to tap on them to get them to spin up, sometimes harder than I care to do. And you have the greenie drives that want to spin down all the time, getting worn out by spinning and up and down far too often. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
