Source on SSDs failing sooner? I thought (or assumed) it was the opposite. A quick Google search turns up the headline “SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5%”.
Looking further, though, I also see: “An SSD failure typically goes like this: One minute it’s working, the next second it’s bricked.”. The page goes on to say that there’s a service that can reliably recover the data from a dead drive, but that seems like a privacy concern (if everything on the drive weren’t logged by the NSA to begin with).
On the pro-SSD side, though, I try to keep anything important online or on an external drive anyway (for easier moving between devices). And I really like the idea of a laptop I can casually carry around without worrying about platters and heads.
Thanks for the suggestions; I may try the Reddit link later. (Edit: posted a thread here.)
If you are backing up your data responsibly, the SSD failure isn’t as much of an issue. And if you aren’t backing up your data, then you need to take care of that before worrying about storage failure.
Source on SSDs failing sooner? I thought (or assumed) it was the opposite. A quick Google search turns up the headline “SSD Annual Failure Rates Around 1.5%, HDDs About 5%”.
Looking further, though, I also see: “An SSD failure typically goes like this: One minute it’s working, the next second it’s bricked.”. The page goes on to say that there’s a service that can reliably recover the data from a dead drive, but that seems like a privacy concern (if everything on the drive weren’t logged by the NSA to begin with).
On the pro-SSD side, though, I try to keep anything important online or on an external drive anyway (for easier moving between devices). And I really like the idea of a laptop I can casually carry around without worrying about platters and heads.
Thanks for the suggestions; I may try the Reddit link later. (Edit: posted a thread here.)
If you are backing up your data responsibly, the SSD failure isn’t as much of an issue. And if you aren’t backing up your data, then you need to take care of that before worrying about storage failure.