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Solid State Drives Tested With TRIM Support
Vigile writes "Despite the rising excitement over SSDs, some of it has been tempered by performance degradation issues. The promised land is supposed to be the mighty TRIM command — a way for the OS to indicate to the SSD a range of blocks that are no longer needed because of deleted files. Apparently Windows 7 will implement TRIM of some kind but for now you can use a proprietary TRIM tool on a few select SSDs using Indilinx controllers. A new article at PC Perspective evaluates performance on a pair of Indilinx drives as well as the TRIM utility and its efficacy."
That's a statistic that doesn't make any sense.
20% under what conditions, and in what timeframe? Over a long enough time period everything has a 100% failure rate.
Normal hard disks also will eventually fail, due to physical wear.
Also if it lasts long enough, at some point, reliability will stop being important. Even if it still works, very few people will want to use a 100MB hard disk from 15 years ago.
Just a small tangential nitpick: we were already more than a factor of ten past that HDD capacity fifteen years ago. The 1GB barrier was broken very early in the Nineties. I still have an HP 1GB SCSI drive from about '91 or '92, IIRC.
As far as failure rates go, I still have ALL of my disk drives (one or two outright failed) from the 15-20 years, and every single one of them still functions at least nominally. I'm still more trusting of magnetic media than I am either rewritable optical or Flash-based media.
I can buy a terabyte hard drive for around $100. For the same hundred dollars, the best SSD I can find is 32GB. On my computer, Steam's cache folder is bigger than 32GB. My music player has a 120GB drive, my DVR has a 350GB drive, and my backup server has a 1.5TB raid. Just because expensive mobile gadgets use expensive solid-state drives does not mean hard drives are dead, dying, or even decaying.
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