A client of mine that does data recovery on hard drives told me recently about the 'myth' (his words) of SSDs. They are blazing fast at first, and while they don't deteriorate as such, their performance wanes over time as writable blocks are reduced. And unlike hard drives who tend to click and give some audible warning they are about to fail, SSDs just stop working without any indication.

This is heresay, and I took it with a grain of salt due to his possible pro-HD bias, but its interesting to hear some related comments here.



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On Mar 5, 2013, at 10:11 AM, Todd Kopriva wrote:

That used to be a serious concern for SSDs, but that is mostly a thing of the past as hardware gets better and technology marches on.

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I'm also interested in any anecdotes about the wisdom of using SSD as a
cache drive given that I have read that the drives have a "limited
number of write cycles"(?) and progressively deteriorating performance
over time because of it?

Robert W. Walker
Los Angeles

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Date: Tue, March 05, 2013 11:57 am
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We're looking to spiff up our Mac towers by installing SSDs for the system/program/cache drives.

Before clicking "Buy", we were curious if anyone had experiences with brands that have let them down or that seem to be particularly good value?

thanks -
Chris

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