SSD’s are typically a tad worse in reliability. The write-limit has nothing to do with it. The controllers simply screw up, leaving your SSD bricked.
What, really? I thought for sure an article I read… like a year+ ago :P, concluded that SSD are much more reliable. Maybe it just depends on the manufacturer, the first SSD’s were basically exactly the same. Perhaps today they actually ARE more reliable? Afaik, SSD can’t/shouldn’t get bricked? You should be able to read as much as you want, only overwriting has a limit. ??
I hate to repeat myself, but I already explained that it had nothing to do with the write-limit. It’s still ‘buggy’ controller firmware, even for Intel SSDs. These things simply take at least a decade to get all the kinks ironed out. Until then, we’ll have bricked SSDs, just like we have HDD failures. Worst is, that once an SSD fails, there is absolutely no way to recover the data.
If you’d be working with lots of drives (not just buying 1 or 2), you’d see that the SSDs die all over the place. In servers, they are run at least in RAID1, obviously not for performance. Don’t assume that because the SSD has no moving parts, it would be orders of magnitude more reliable, as said, it’s slightly worse.
SSD quality varies like crazy between vendors. Samsung SSDs have a pretty good reputation – it’s what Apple uses for the Macbook Air.
I recently bought a 60gb Intel ssd for families’ PC. It was fine for a few weeks and then now there is this constant issue with it not being recognized by the bios. But it’s also completely unreliable, sometimes you can just restart and others the only thing that works is power cycling.
From my point of view their more than they’re cracked up to be.
I have an SSD and even if I had to replace it every two months, I’d still not go back to a HDD for OS and apps. :persecutioncomplex:
I wouldn’t want to go back to HDD either, but after a while I think it would not be worth the hassle. Sometimes I would happily sacrifice performance for reliability.
one day I turned the pc on and all screen just stayed black, no post, nothing…
spent a day trying to figure out which part is the culprit (I’m no hardware guy, and that a broken SSD/HDD could have that effect was new to me)
whenever I connected the SSD there would either be no post at all, or it would recognize the drive, depding on the SATA slot on the mainboard
however I was aware that this has nothing to do wit “the SSD limit” since thats only after PETA bytes of data.
So makes sense that it bricked
Eh… shrug I think SSDs arent worth it. This was a 32GB SSD for 80 euro. I made the OS boot up, 10 seconds faster, linux actually lightning fast, and apps were starting faster marginally
but usually you dont notice and its just too expensive.
So I dont care for SSDs anymore. At least for now.
Reinstalling a highly customized OS is always fun…
I really need to backup my files though, to return to topic.
Actually I would like to do with the cloud… but internet services for this are quite expensive; on the other hand, like I said, the really important stuff isnt really all that much
maybe I should buy like 4 8GB USB drives and a hub, and backup everything occasionally on all of them
My cheap offsite backup is:
- 7zip my VC directory
- email it to myself at cycling addresses.
- done.
Not very handy if you have assets in VC…but for code it’s just fine.
F that SSD, they’re expensive, let me go back to that shining circle disk!
For java code I have plan to use dropbox, but I’m still wondering how to change my Eclipse’s workspace to that dropbox directory for auto-upload >.>
Simple, just use a symbolic link.
wth is that?
I know it looks like shortcut but telling eclipse to store my next and current workspace to a new directory?
It has nothing to do with Eclipse. Just create a symbolic link (I use this cool extension) of your workspace into the Dropbox folder. I use this to backup all my files which are spread out over different folders.
Oh I see, so dropbox will get deceived? ;D
Wait, updating my real workspace doesn’t trigger upload??? :o
Yes, Dropbox will think it’s a normal folder.
Of course it will! A symbolic link is like a shortcut…but more native. The link looks as if it belongs there but it really is a shortcut to the other folder. The folder appears at two places at once but the data is only at 1 place. It’s quite confusing 
No it won’t. I dropped a junction on dropbox’s folder. It uploaded. Then I deleted a file on real place, dropbox didn’t move.
@theagentd: sorry for hijacking your thread, but this must be finished.
Dropbox isn’t instant 
I´m wondering this too, so you´re not really hijacking the thread. xd I was planning on simply putting my workspace folder in my Dropbox folder…
It is :cranky: wgen you modif something on its folder it’ll go syncing except you disable it. Even adding a space to a text file will.
Green light to go wild ;D
Why don’t we have apt-get install mycloud yet? Seriously. It isn’t that hard to sync files through tubes… and as theagentd, for the time being, can’t reach all his existing code anyway, I assign this task to him.
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