[dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two

As far as I can tell, they're Intel drives.


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:51 PM
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What brand was the SSDs that were failing?

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:51 PM
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I don't want to bias anyone against the manufacturer, but their name sounds like Renovo... :-)


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: 26 June 2013 20:33
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two

On 2013-06-26 2:12 PM, Jon Tydda wrote:
> Reliability has to vastly improve first. We bought 250 laptops with
> SSDs three years ago at work, and we've replaced nearly 50 of the
> drives under warranty.
>
> It could be that they don't like having Bitlocker encryption on them,
> but I wouldn't buy one for my data drive just yet.

Wow, 20% failure rate over 3 years ain't a good storage option!

PB

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> Jon
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim
> Lawrence
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> Subject: [dba-Tech] Everyone needs one or two
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> SSD drives are growing larger as well as cheaper.
>
> Will the new SSD drives eventually spell the end to traditional hard
drives?
> My thoughts are that they probably will, at least as the master
> drives; all the price decimal point has to do is move one position to
> the
left.
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> http://semiaccurate.com/2013/06/23/lsi-puts-out-a-4tb-pcie3-ssd/
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> Jim
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