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No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might consider it. |
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Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? |
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On 08/29/14 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: |
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>> So there seems to be a pattern :-/ |
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>> How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo |
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>> compilations :-) ? |
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>No. There is not a pattern. Two guys used drives for 5 years and then |
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>they failed. |
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>5 years? Wow. That's double what you can reasonably expect, you got good |
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>service. |
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>SSDs are much more expensive than spinning disks, 1TB will cost a |
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>fortune. But they work in Gentoo very well - I'm on my second and this |
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>one is 256G, still runs as fast as the day I got it. |
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>> Joseph |
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>> On 08/28/14 22:46, Mick wrote: |
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>>> On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: |
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>>>> I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation |
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>>>> (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. |
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>>> Interesting ... mine also failed catastrophically a couple of months |
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>>> around 5 years of continuous use. |
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>>> Which reminds me to run a backup on my Seagate: |
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>>> Model Family: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 |
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>>> Device Model: ST9500420ASG |
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>>> I'm not sure how much anecdotal reports on reliable drives actually hold |
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>>> water, unless we're talking about an epidemic of failures like I seem to |
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>>> recall Dell's Seagate drives experienced a few years ago. |
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>>> Regards, |
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>>> Mick |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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