Maes
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Unless someone is s Kops/sec whore, other than the size, reliability and longevity are still an issue. An SSD does guarantee immunity to shock/vibration, but not necessarily longer life under normal use. I heard figures that 2-3 years of continuous use (not unusual, if installed in an "always on" scenario) will produce noticeable wear, at which point you're at the mercy of the wear levelling strategy. And rest assured that the "affordable" stuff won't exactly be crème de la crème de la crème in those areas.
For personal use, I avoid them, or at least I'd not use them alone: a SSD might be great for booting an OS, but not as an everyday bulk drive, and certainly not a goot idea to fill up, thus hindering its wear levelling. A SSD + normal HD configuration should be optimal, but e.g. most laptops don't have two HD bays (my Dell 1720 does, however).
We considered replacing the aging 40-80 MB HDs in my workplace's computer lab with new SSDs of about that capacity (so size wouldn't be an issue, and a 500 GB HD would be both more expensive and wasteful), but the research we performed showed that we wouldn't gain much in terms of longevity. After 2-3 years we'd be witnessing mass failures, so it's just as much a crapshoot as leaving the current HDs in and dealing with the occasional SMART error.
Last edited by Maes on 11-25-12 at 12:40
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