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. They don't just fail "Read only" that only applies if writes are=20 exhusted. The ones with the cheap 9" netbooks do seem to be more power=20 hungry and slower on sequential writes than a 60Gbyte Toshiba 1.8" HDD But maybe people are lying. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .