[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 15:36:22 BST 2010


On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King <linuxman at avoura.com> wrote:
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>
>> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
>> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups)
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
> I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed
> DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still
> owned by IBM.
>
> Samsung drives have so far been good for me.
>
>
> david
>
Does anyone know how SSDs compare in terms of lifetime? I know
theoretically they have a shorter lifetime than conventional hard
drives, but in practice?

Tom



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