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[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives



> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Kent Borg
> 
> Indeed, though disks frequently (usually?) degrade with warning. SMART
> monitoring can note ECC-errors, for example. 

Flash failure is much more easily and much more reliably predicted than hdd failure.



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