On 04/06/2011 19:37, Peter Johansson wrote:
> I am also surprised at the lack of discussion of the high failure
> rates of the early SSD drives.  The personal reports I have heard are
> far greater than the media coverage would lead one to believe.  I am
> certainly not going to drop for an SSD until there is greater proof of
> long-term reliability.

These kind of thoughts made me err on the side of caution on Thursday.=20
It wasn't based on any specific knowledge, I just preferred to choose a=20
known quantity.
However, I will definitely try an SSD in my next laptop - I was thinking=20
with daily backups, for me the performance benefits would win over any=20
reliability worries. If most of your important data is on your network=20
and you just keep your software, OS and daily work on the SSD then it=20
should be fine.
I have a few forms of backup - file, image and VCS, to two different=20
network drives. I would never trust the drive in my laptop to work from=20
one day to the next anyway, regardless of reliability reports.
FWIW, the new drive is now in my laptop, data swapped over and working well=
..
(fixed my annoying typo also :-) )

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