On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, David Brown wrote:
I would believe that /if/ an SSD was going to die, it is likely to do so without warning - it is likely to be the controller that has died. But I can think of no reason why the controller on an SSD is more likely to die than the controller on an HD - and HD's have so many more ways to die (often slowly and noisily).
I have a lot higher failure rates on SSDs when than HDDs, all of them sudden complete deaths. Those were all first-generation drives from Intel and OCZ, but still...
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