OK, so word is out that Solid State Drives (SSD) are not as reliable as they were once thought to be. Essentially, we projected the decades of expertise that have gone into making hard disks reliable onto these new drives and expected more or less the same level of reliability. Of course, as people started to buy these drives in mass and own them over time, we realize that we were not comparing apples to apples.
In other words, past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance if you change the fundamental technology underneath.
Still, folks like Jeff Atwood are willing to give up the occasional, “catastrophic, oh-my-God-what-just-happened-to-all-my-data instant gigafail” because their seek times are so good. Jeff tells the tale of someone who bought eight drives over two years only to have them all fail. Some within 15 days! As long as you plan for failure as a known, then you can enjoy mass storage performance that even your RAM will have a hard time keeping up with.
To put it in his words, “SSDs are so scorching hot that I’m willing to put up with their craziness.”
With that behind us, which of the following videos do you think does a better job selling you on the speed and reliability of an SSD?
This one?
or this one?
One video had 673 views, another had over 3.7 million.
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