On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 12:53, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I used to work at an oceanographic institute, so many systems got
used at sea (in the North Atlantic, not the gentler parts of the Pacific
Ocean) . HDD failures were an ongoing nuisance. SSD's were clear
winners as soon as they became available. SSD failures during the
5-year replacement cycle were rare.
While that is true, it is hard to predict future performance of a new
product.
Spinning disks have many more failure modes than SSD's, so risks
of a new model turning out to have design flaws are greater for
HDD's than for SSD's.
> 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.
In heavy use, HDD's often fail around the end of the warranty period,
enough so some shops just routinely replace drives at end-of-warranty.
HDD's do have predictable wear, but can last a long time with less
demanding workloads. You can say the same of SSD's, but in practice
they haven't been dramatically worse than HDD's, so the other advantages
make them a better choice for most workloads.
5 years later and SSD's are generally offered in base models from major vendors.
SSD's are a cheap way to reduce boot times and make a system more responsive.
Vendors balance those advantages against failure rates.
George N. White III
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