Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months
by ars on Thursday March 12, 2015 @10:50PM
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> Considering spinning rust used to fail catastrophically
That's one of the things I look for in a hard disk - how does it act when it fails. A "good" failure is some bad sectors, but otherwise OK.
Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months
by Klinky on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:05AM
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...and which magical hard drive do you buy that guarantees it will fail gracefully? Customer hard drive reviews are littered with sudden drive deaths and DOAs. If the electronics or motor go on a hard drive, the data is practically toast unless you're ready to pay out the nose for exotic data recovery.
Plan for the worst, hope for the best.
In fact my personal advice is to plan to lose everything since your last backup. If you can't afford that risk, back up more often.
No disk technology is perfect nor instantly comparable. I consider this to be purely a 'value for money before it blows up' assessment. The results make me happy as I've been recommending and use 840 pros for a while now.