BronxWench

I’ve been talked into a solid state drive for the damned thing. My only consolation is I don’t need to recover anything from that drive when it fails. My desktop, on the other hand, will not ever depend on a SSD. I don’t trust anything I can’t slap into a caddy and strip of whatever’s useful.

From the practical view, SSDs , the ones looking like a laptop hard drive, are effectively the same.  They can be removed, shoved into a caddy (I have a USB adapter), and tossed around in pretty much the same way.  And if they fail, the SSD supposedly will let you pull your files off, whereas a HDD is dead.  If you've got the space, having the OS and apps on an SSD while using a HDD for files is another way to go.

I’ve been able to recover files from my HDDs when they crap out, but SSDs don’t allow you to retrieve anything. The difference is in how they store data, and the mechanical nature of an HDD is easier to slave than the flash nature of SSD storage. The technology changes, and improves, yes, but SSDs aren’t foolproof yet, and I’m not sold yet. But yes, SSD for OS and apps with HDD for files is actually not a bad plan, once they get better.

Eh, at least it won’t be a Seagate drive.  Western Digital, thank all the gods…