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Originally Posted by Freezebyte
That doesn't mean anything. Drives can fail at random times, even if they are the exact same drives in the exact same machine. Such is the tradeoff for magnetic storage media. SSD's will be the future of data storage in the coming years.
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I'm looking at it from a MTBF perspective. Yeah, they can fail sooner, but a drive that is used more has a higher chance of failing early.
SSD tech needs to improve before it becomes a long-term viable solution. The typical SSD memory module has a ~100k write life-cycle (per cell). That can somewhat be mitigated via wear leveling, but that has its own issues in certain applications. Anyway, for most people, this means at least a year or so of use, but definitely not good for systems that do a lot of writes. Also, SSD has a slower write than read speed. I'll take a conventional HDD for now until things improve.