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Thanks for posting. It reminded me to backup.
Nothing lasts forever except taxes and bad dates ;')
As usual, the headline states the most severe circumstance.
Excuse me while I go back to not losing sleep over this.
“Something to think about for those of you who prefer SSDs in lieu of regular HDDs.”
As long as I’m the first one at work with an SSD, what does it matter?
All the more reason to have your data backed up in the clloud.
At this point in technology only an idiot would use SSD for permanent storage. They are designed to be a form of cache.
Technology will probably advance and soon they will be reliable for ever increasing periods of time.
PS. Only idiots believe the marketing hype of certain vendors.
Clickbait is clickbait.
At this point in technology only an idiot would use SSD for permanent storage. They are designed to be a form of cache.
Technology will probably advance and soon they will be reliable for ever increasing periods of time.
PS. Only idiots believe the marketing hype of certain vendors.
Huh, that’s bound to be a problem when the manufacturers ship them with software installed.
I use a bunch of SSDDs. They work great.
Sounds like a lot of bunk to me.
I had a ssd drive crash about a month ago. With an hdd I am able to recover most anything. The ssd just stopped and there was no way to get anything off it. I replaced both drives with hdd and took the performance hit. In my 25 years of computing I have only lost 2 hdds. First computer I got with sdd and it died.
Does this affect those USB drives?
I have a 3-part policy here.
1. For my paranoia, no cloud or other online storage;
2. For my feeling of insecurity, I back up everything on at least five devices (other laptop, thumb drives, etc.);
3. For actual security, I make a print copy of everything.
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The only storage device for modern tablets and many new types of sleek notebooks—like the Microsoft Surface 3 or latest high-end iPad—is SSD.
The many manufacturers are law suit adverse. I doubt this issue is something we need to worry too much about.
Murphy’s law still applies, of course, but I wouldn’t worry too much. I use my tablets to teach computer classes and professional talks and demonstrations. But I am a consultant too and then might chose not to use them for a particular project. I have left my Surface or iPad turned off for many weeks, sometimes a month or so and never had an issue.
This is why I sleep my machines. Sleep is a low-power alternative to shutting down. Hibernate will write RAM to disk and put the machine in low-power, but with SSD, hibernate is not as safe as sleep.
I recently booted an offline enterprise certificate authority with SSDs in my lab environment after being offline for 18 months, and it booted with no issues. This is good information to keep in mind, but I don’t believe this is a major issue.