[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[Adam Bagnall]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Thomas Ibbotson
<thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
> > Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> >>
> >> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
> >> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly
> backups)
> >>
> >> Al
> >>
> >>
> > I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed
> > DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still
> > owned by IBM.
> >
> > Samsung drives have so far been good for me.
> >
> >
> > david
> >
> Does anyone know how SSDs compare in terms of lifetime? I know
> theoretically they have a shorter lifetime than conventional hard
> drives, but in practice?
>
> Tom
>
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In terms of lifetime I don't know, but in theory at least the failure mode
when you've hit your write limit is that you can still read what's on there.
No data loss, you just can't change what's on the "used up" cells.
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