On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 15:01 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I'm not sure about "longer life expectancy than your reg hard drive"; but in any case it doesn't matter. The best thing to do is always: have a spare. It doesn't matter what it is; it your concerned enough about it [because, I presume, you depend on it] to crawl around the Internet to verify your configuration Absolutely agree with all of this. .... buy two [and at only twice the price! But not with this little bit. At least with regular disks - I can't speak for SSDs. But buying two together increases your chances of them sharing a common batch fault and both failing at very near the same time. I generally try to buy from different manufacturers, or at different times.
False. They cannot fail at the "same time'; that isn't possible. You purchased the second as a *SPARE*. You don't use a *SPARE* until you need it [the first one fails]. Once you are using it then it isn't a spare. Maybe they will both fail after six months of use - but that is a year, not six months. And you have six months to buy your new spare after your first one failed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org