RIP Seagate hard drives

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Dan Martin <dc.martin at verizon.net> wrote:
> I, too, am leary of the current crop of disk drives available.
>
> I used an Intel SSD on the last machine I installed, and I plan on going
> that route for everything in the future.  I'd be interested in hearing
> thoughts from this group.  Am I nuts?  Or is this a rational approach.
>
> The "feature" that sold me is that, when an SSD fails, you can still read
> it,
> you just can't write to it.    So I'm thinking that the SSD becomes the

huh?  Where'd you read this? This sounds like wishful thinking, based
on some "best case" scenario failures. Google is littered with reports
of SSD failures where the data was 100% lost.




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