[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives

[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 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.