* Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> [10-22-19 08:22]:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [10-22-19 04:03]:
On 21/10/2019 23.28, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:39:46 +0200 Knurpht-openSUSE <knurpht@opensuse.org> wrote:
Oh, yeah. And we've never seen failing HDDs? Come on.
Fewer. All disks die, but apparently, SSD tend to do so suddenly. Guess some of my customers prefer a risky life :D. They spend lots of money to replace spinning disks by SSD, but they must be wrong
Op maandag 21 oktober 2019 22:13:18 CEST schreef Carlos E. R.: then. :D. Admitted, not on their large storage cluster. Which have SAS disks in RAID.
We are specifically talking about disks to use in backups are we not?
Indeed. My computers are now all on SSD, but the backups are all on HDs. Certainly cheaper and bigger, and perhaps safer.
larger and cheaper but definitely not safer. look on the net, consensus is for SSDs. and while your comment about "ssds tend to die suddenly fully and completely" is possibly true as we do not have the history available to adequately compare to rust, the effort to recover from rotating rust failure is extensive.
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