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SuperBiiz has the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD1000DHTZ 1TB 10000RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive for $215 - $10 off with coupon code NYRESO2013 [Exp 1/14] + $5 shipping = $210 shipped. Features 1.4 million hours MTBF, 5-year limited warranty, and ultra-cool operation.
$210
I know performance not of ssd but still a good deal for a Raptor this size
Rather have 1/4 size of this in ssd for same price.
Even with the 5 year warranty -It doesn't warranty all of the overhead the need for a warranty submission calls for -not to mention the data loss itself.
If I had to go mechanical, SAS enterprise is the only thing I'd consider.
Condolences RPM drives! You lose!
(The bums will always lose!) ?
I see. So a SSD drive doesn't have the same potential to lose data and you never use time to submit a warranty claim for one. Thanks for the great tips...
No it doesn't have the same potential. That's old news, or if you buy junk (which applies to any product anywhere)
You're welcome.
Apples and oranges. HDDs have a certain % defect or shock induced damage rate causing data loss but are otherwise mature tech, while SSDs tend to have logical problems affecting certain models and/or firmwares.
Either can cause data loss, the only real solution there is data redundancy, a backup copy(s) of the data.
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We use dozens of SSDs every week for some years now, and dozens of mech drives weekly for over a decade prior. What you said simply isn't worth mentioning in comparison anymore, Dave. Logical problems are 98 out of 100 times user error with SSDs. Servicing hundreds of machines, our return to mfgr rate has gone from 3-4 a week (mech) to maybe 1 (ssd) every 6 months -if even that.
And of course we still use backups. A stable storage volume doesn't protect your data from malicious code AKA: Viruses -An ongoing battle that will never end. Backups will never, ever cease to exist.
Maybe I'm just charmed, I seem to have a lower mechanical HDD failure rate than a lot of people do.
Then there's polls like the following, published only 4 months ago, which paint SSDs as far less reliable than HDDs:
http://www.zdnet.com/ssd-infant-mortality-ii-7000003945/
Like a lot of feedback you see on hardware including comments like newegg's, I think there's a higher response rate of the people experience failures. I think most are more inclined to want to bitch at the mfgr and vendor when they have a problem, but not so much when everything's ok. Speculative.