Jeff Atwood reports that while Solid State Drives fail often, many completely dying within a year, the performance is so amazing that tit is worth the huge performance improvement for the added risk.
I have been thinking about getting a computer with SSD. I guess I would just have to be extra careful to backup all important data.
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The thing is, it's not the drive that's the problem as such. Programs are optimized for platters, and write and re-write a lot of things to make optimal use of the platters. Obviously this isn't nececary with a SSD, but also in the nature of a SSD is that it can't handle the constant re-writing. Eventually programs will optimise for them, but for now, the constant re-writing put in for platter systems destroys SSDs.
Hey, when are you all going to write a book called "why homeschool?" with all these cool articles and statistics in it that I can give to my friend to convince her to homeschool ... her son will be 5 in September so you all better hurry. :-D
abba12 - you are correct. This is a problem for SSD. I think over time technology will improve the robustness of SSD.
Fatcat - I am afraid it may never come out. I haven't really thought it about it for a year or two. There is so much to do and only so much I can delegate to my daughters. :-)
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