On 03/24/2014 10:38 AM, Tom Horsley issued this missive:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:27:14 -0600 Chris Murphy wrote:
Yeah I agree there's too much nervousness about SSD wear issues.
And, of course, hard disks just never fail in comparison, right? :-).
It's not so much an issue that hard disks don't fail, but they usually start giving some indication they're having issues (retries, etc.) so you can plan for it (get a new drive, make sure you have a backup so you can replace the drive and recover).
SSDs just...die. No warning, nothing. Suddenly the machine won't boot and you find the SSD is just a lump of useless silicon. I've had to replace at least four SSDs in Macbooks in the last year. Fortunately we had backups for three of them, but the fourth guy was adamant that he didn't need backups. Needless to say he was rather angry when it crapped out on him. "I hate to say we warned you, but......" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the - - reader...who doesn't get it. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------