[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives

[Robert Krawitz]

On Tue, 06 May 2014 09:07:36 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> Yes, I understand that, though individual flash cells that have low
> cycle count lives, they can be extended by clever firmware. Clever
> proprietary firmware, that might have bugs. Until SSDs can overcome
> their early reputation of having bugs and failing without warning, I
> am going to stay cautious.

Disks themselves have clever proprietary firmware...
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