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On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:14:07 -0400, Keyser Söze
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On 6/26/15 10:02 AM, Boating All Out wrote:
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I have not jumped on the SSD bandwagon with Harry yet. I just don't
like the fact that they tell you these things have a finite life
(10,000 writes). On a system drive, that might happen pretty fast.
(something like the page files)

I've been running a SSD as my system disk for about a year and a half
without issue. Also have a 512 GB SSD for my games. No issues.
They're much faster, cooler, and use very little power.
Spinners will fail too.
For the average user who's happy to just chug along, they're pointless,
but for a so-called "power user" they're the cat's meow.
It gets down to expense.
So if you don't want to pay up, it's fine to do without.
I expect prices to keep coming down until they match spinners.

When I set up my Synology server, I bought four "premium" two terabyte
hard drives to put in it. I don't know why they were considered premium,
but they were "highly recommended" for servers. They weren't that much
more expensive than "ordinary" drives. So far, they've been running
without a hitch, knock on plastic.

Premium drives are supposed to be manufactured to higher specs and
have higher MTBF but I am not sure that is actually true.

I sell my desktop iMac every three years, when the AppleCare expires. My
current iMac has an SSD drive...so far, no problems. My laptop also has
an SSD that has operated so far without a hitch. Spinning drives are
pretty much obsolete for personal computers.

As long as they keep making spinners cheaper per GB, I doubt they will
be going away anytime soon. You do seem to give up reliability for
capacity. I have some old 40 GB Maxtor drives that have been running
24/7 for a decade. I do not expect my 1TB and larger drives to last
nearly that long. I always keep my C: on a small drive and put my
"data" on another drive that is easier to keep backed up. (a simple
"copy" vs the backup/restore process)

If you're storing massive files (music and vids, eg.) there's no point
in paying up at today's prices for a SSD unless you've got money to
spare.
But you can cheaply put your system on a 32 or 64 GB SSD.
Massive improvement in boot time in one benefit.
I won't go back to spinners for my system drive.
My experience with SSD's has been good so far.
You don't give up any reliability if MTBF figures are to be believed.
SSD's MTBF are about 150 years now. Long enough?
It's just the expense of larger drives working against SSD's.
You can get one to easily hold your system for under $40.