[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives

[blu at nedharvey.com (Edward Ned Harvey (blu))]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of MBR
> 
> While it's true that any medium can fail with no warning, if your data's
> on a spinning magnetic platter, the most likely modes of failure do not
> destroy all the data on the platter.

If your data is valuable enough to send to a recovery center for $1,000, then it's valuable enough to add a mirror for $100.  

Go crazy and make it a 3-way mirror.  $200

There's never a situation where the drive recovery option is a good choice.  All such failures could have been prevented for a fraction of the cost via redundancy and/or backups.