SSDs Have High Failure Rate?

  i thought they had special wear reducing algorthiums for this

frg1:

  i thought they had special wear reducing algorthiums for this

yes they're similar to what is used in regular hard drives, although they haven't developed anything like S.M.A.R.T. for SSDs yet. Basically an SSD drive is a certain % larger than its stated size the extra space is for error correction so when an area on the SSD fails they swap in a good block from the extra space just like a regular hard disk. SSDs also have another means to make them last longer. Whenever an SSD is written to the bits are moved to different areas on the disk so that the entire SSD wears evenly and one single area isn't always being written to.

Another factor that willaffect how long an SSD lasts is what type of flash memory is used to create it. Did the vendor use the cheapo MLC flash memory that a lot of usb thumb drives & memory cards use or is made of SLC NAND flash which tends to last 5-10 times longer than the MLC stuff. You would think with the cost of SSDs they would all be made from the SLC NAND flash chips but that isn't true.

 you think if they used chepo memory the prices would be lower than what they are now

 i guess they like taking are money

I don't think I will be getting a solid state drive for a few years just yet. I don't see the good thing about it if you do not have a notebook, and it also seems like the technology is just too raw at the moment for them. I'll wait a bit till everything gets fixed.

if i want something fast i will just get a raptor

The recently published analyst report estimating a high return rate for Solid State Drive technology (SSD) in Dell products is unfounded and wholly inaccurate.  We've posted our  responce on Dell's external blog, www.direct2dell.com.

Dell sees SSD as the future of mobility storage and offers the technology across a wide variety of laptop models, including business, consumer and mobile workstations. Second Generation SSDs, like Samsung’s SATA II Drive, actually outperform existing notebook drives. Dell is offering this drive (called the Dell Flash Ultra Performance SSD) across our laptop portfolio.

 Well, this is simply a normal developmental cycle.

 First generation of any product will be slow / higher failure rate, but they will improve, and will be superior.

Some company was talking about the limited writes, their solution was to throw several gigs of something sort of like RAM for use as a page file / virtual memory. 

 like a really big cache

Anne@Dell:

The recently published analyst report estimating a high return rate for Solid State Drive technology (SSD) in Dell products is unfounded and wholly inaccurate.  We've posted our  responce on Dell's external blog, www.direct2dell.com.

Dell sees SSD as the future of mobility storage and offers the technology across a wide variety of laptop models, including business, consumer and mobile workstations. Second Generation SSDs, like Samsung’s SATA II Drive, actually outperform existing notebook drives. Dell is offering this drive (called the Dell Flash Ultra Performance SSD) across our laptop portfolio.

So do you know if dell is selling SSDs with the MLC or SLC flash memory in them? or do i have to buy one to find out? 

 probably just a hardrive labeled as a ssd

hybrid disk drives aren't that good either

like isaid before if you want good relible speed get a raptor 

raptor will give you speed yes -- but the fact that they are 10000RPM creates a lot more heat/vibration and actually makes them more susceptible to failure than would a lot of 7200RPM drives.....

If you want reliabilty and speed -- you would need a few raptors in a Raid 5 or something of the sort

i still think a raptor is more realible than a ssd is at the moment 

The SSD however,is completely silent,and the Raptor is louder than a lot of normal performance hard-drives.

get a silencer it will still be cheaper to get a hdd silencer and the raptor  than a ssd alone 

frg1:

i still think a raptor is more realible than a ssd is at the moment

Based on what?

id say based on the price performance point :) you can get a nice WD hard drive for a lot less than a comparable SSD (size wise)... and i've been reading a lot of articles talking about the prematurity of SSDs, they arn't necessarily more efficient and can in some cases, be less efficient... hell, I could setup a Raid 0+1 for less money that an SSD.... 500 GB HDs are cheaapp!