SSD Drive - Backup & Failure

synthjoe · Post by **synthjoe** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:56 pm

I'm not arguing, because you're right, going purely by the numbers. That's why I'm giving the technology a chance in my laptop - but I have yet to see a 10 year old SSD drive, for obvious reasons...

madbeatzyo111 wrote:My company is in the process of replacing all of our laptops (tens of thousands) with SSDs because magnetics fail so regularly every 3-4 years.

That's because they are sensitive to physical handling and temperature alterations, dust, etc. - laptops are inherently exposed to such things much more than desktops or servers.

SSD's tolerate those far better, for various reasons - plus they have a low / no seek time, low latency and high throughput too, in most cases. Price, data retention and endurance are the trade-offs. Still, acceptable in most cases - at least as we know / estimate it today.

madbeatzyo111 · Post by **madbeatzyo111** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:47 pm

synthjoe wrote: That's because they are sensitive to physical handling and temperature alterations, dust, etc. - laptops are inherently exposed to such things much more than desktops or servers.

Very true...in fact not unlike a gigged Kronos eh?

I think for these reasons and the live streaming, there's no other choice except to use a SSD.

But, how about using a small HDD (2.5" and <100gb) along with RAM-based SSD? The HDD loads data to the RAM SSD upon start-up only and does nothing else after that. That would be the most robust scheme in terms of endurance and data retention.