30-10-2013, 12:11 PM
I wouldn't massively trust an SSD to hold data over a prolonged period of time, especially if there's lots of other IO going on on the drive...
It totally depends what you're doing with it, but if you're doing lots of IO with a drive, the SSD won't last as long, especially if it's an MLC. Later generation controllers change the areas in the drive that the data is stored, but there is a finite number of times that the memory can be read/written from and to...
As a general rule they are more reliable in terms of return rates, however, you have to include laptop drives in that, SSDs are great in laptops, I wouldn't have anything else, but still in a desktop if I wanted to have something that I stored my data on that I didn't want to lose, I'd still stick it on a good mechanical hard drive...
For my work, we still only really see SSDs as super fast cache/scratch space - not for prolonged storage space. Enterprise grade spinning disks are around the same price point these days as most SSDs. Enterprise grade SSDs are just silly expensive and very small - or don't have the reliability of the Enterprise grade spinning disks.
It totally depends what you're doing with it, but if you're doing lots of IO with a drive, the SSD won't last as long, especially if it's an MLC. Later generation controllers change the areas in the drive that the data is stored, but there is a finite number of times that the memory can be read/written from and to...
As a general rule they are more reliable in terms of return rates, however, you have to include laptop drives in that, SSDs are great in laptops, I wouldn't have anything else, but still in a desktop if I wanted to have something that I stored my data on that I didn't want to lose, I'd still stick it on a good mechanical hard drive...
For my work, we still only really see SSDs as super fast cache/scratch space - not for prolonged storage space. Enterprise grade spinning disks are around the same price point these days as most SSDs. Enterprise grade SSDs are just silly expensive and very small - or don't have the reliability of the Enterprise grade spinning disks.
