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Hi,
Sorry, just had to respond to this:
Back in the days if you wanted reliability you picked scsi drives. Ordinary HD drives IDE or SATA don't come close.You can only write so many times to an SSD while a mechanical drive uses the armature and read/write heads that fail over time.
Nowadays any consumer SSD far surpasses any mechanical drive really.
Sure, they're more expensive but I'd only buy a mechanical drive if I'd wanted a 8Tb one for a video library or something like that. A drive you'd only use once in awhile. IOW, huge storage devices that don't spin all day.
Other than that any SSD will beat a mechanical drive's MBTF hands down nowadays. Just look at the specs.
90% of the top servers are running off SSDs 24/7 nowadays, they're way faster than any scsi spinner, more reliable and last so much longer. Not to mention they're a lot greener too. A lot.
Anyhow, sorry about the interference....
There's a lot of misinformation floating around or so it seems.
Cheers,
EDIT: Wd Raptor? Really? They're just high rotation ( say 10 or 15 RPM 2.5 Inch disks attached to cooling ribs
They're noisy and SLOW by today's standards, even compared to a regular 3.5 inch spinner really.
Lowish capacity too and are these around nowadays ?
Don't think so. Most of the time the stuff we, consumers get is old tech server stuff anyway....
Anything based on semi-conductors will often outlast anything with mechanical parts now. By a large margin.
Same goes for the controller parts, be that passive or active parts. Trust me, you can easily build SSD's (or other stuff) now that could last a 100 years and beyond. Easy.
Respectfully.
Last edited by fdegrove; 19 Mar 2016 at 19:50.