OT: SSD or not to SSD, that is the question

[Tim]

Rick Stevens wrote:
>> SSDs are fast, but when they die, it's typically sudden, with no
>> warning, catastrophic and irrecoverable.

Tom Horsley:
> You mean just like every "normal" hard disk I've ever had die? (OK,
> one did get smart errors first, but all the others just went kaput
> with no warning).

I haven't had a HDD do that, yet (tempting fate by saying that).  I've a
few that have always had a bad sector or two, that I've kept on using
while testing out Linux installs, because they were left in the box.

Here's a pecularity:  When you have a master and slave on parallel ATA
port, where one drive has a fault, it impacts on the performance of both
drives.

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