In the absence of mechanical failure, a HDD will last for ages...
Reminds me of that saying, "if your mother had balls she'd be your dad". That's precisely why HDDs fail. I guess its debatable whether the SSDs will fail before HDDs due to the finite number of read/writes that they can perform over their lifetime. But HDDs will eventually fail because of mechanical failure. Its only a matter of time. Most do survive the lifetime of an average pc but certainly not all.
Reminds me of that saying, "if your mother had balls she'd be your dad". That's precisely why HDDs fail. I guess its debatable whether the SSDs will fail before HDDs due to the finite number of read/writes that they can perform over their lifetime. But HDDs will eventually fail because of mechanical failure. Its only a matter of time. Most do survive the lifetime of an average pc but certainly not all.
Just because you know how a part may fail does not mean that it will fail. I have had hard drives to fail. In fact, the first computer that I owned experienced a hard drive failure. However, I also have computers whose hard drives are going strong after nearly two decades. SSDs have not been around that long. It will be interesting to see how long we can reasonably expect them to last. It will also be interesting to see if data is as easy to recover from a failed SSD as it is from a failed HDD.
I was reading This months edition of PC Format and they had a round Up of SSDs
I was wondering how many of you have started using SSDs, and is the performance increase that significant,
I was thinking of getting an SSD drive and installing windows on it and using it as my primary drive and my 1TB WD as my data drive,
Is it worth the price for the speed increase or should i just stick with the 1 TB,
The performance boost is amazing. Also considering that usually, Notebooks HD are the slowest thing on earth. I had this SSD for over three days and I can say that I knew that it would be quicker... But this is just STUNNING! The Os's responsiveness, the process of opening tons of applications at once, absolutely EVERYTHING suffers an incredible boost... It is just amazing to realize that in modern computers what is really braking everything down are old, crappy noisy traditional HDD.
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In the absence of mechanical failure, a HDD will last for ages...
Reminds me of that saying, "if your mother had balls she'd be your dad". That's precisely why HDDs fail. I guess its debatable whether the SSDs will fail before HDDs due to the finite number of read/writes that they can perform over their lifetime. But HDDs will eventually fail because of mechanical failure. Its only a matter of time. Most do survive the lifetime of an average pc but certainly not all.
Reminds me of that saying, "if your mother had balls she'd be your dad". That's precisely why HDDs fail. I guess its debatable whether the SSDs will fail before HDDs due to the finite number of read/writes that they can perform over their lifetime. But HDDs will eventually fail because of mechanical failure. Its only a matter of time. Most do survive the lifetime of an average pc but certainly not all.
Just because you know how a part may fail does not mean that it will fail. I have had hard drives to fail. In fact, the first computer that I owned experienced a hard drive failure. However, I also have computers whose hard drives are going strong after nearly two decades. SSDs have not been around that long. It will be interesting to see how long we can reasonably expect them to last. It will also be interesting to see if data is as easy to recover from a failed SSD as it is from a failed HDD.
I was wondering how many of you have started using SSDs, and is the performance increase that significant,
I was thinking of getting an SSD drive and installing windows on it and using it as my primary drive and my 1TB WD as my data drive,
Is it worth the price for the speed increase or should i just stick with the 1 TB,
I was reading This months edition of PC Format and they had a round Up of SSDs
I was wondering how many of you have started using SSDs, and is the performance increase that significant,
I was thinking of getting an SSD drive and installing windows on it and using it as my primary drive and my 1TB WD as my data drive,
Is it worth the price for the speed increase or should i just stick with the 1 TB,
The performance boost is amazing. Also considering that usually, Notebooks HD are the slowest thing on earth. I had this SSD for over three days and I can say that I knew that it would be quicker... But this is just STUNNING!
I will never go back...