[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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> SSD drives are growing larger as well as cheaper.
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> 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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