[PLUG] Selecting a SSD

[Denis Heidtmann]

Great!  Thanks for all the responses.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>
wrote:

> Rich said all that needs to be said
>
> > As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> >
> > > Samsung was recommended here. I see $150 for their 850 EVO 480G, and
> they
> > > have a 5 Yr. warranty v.s. 3 Yr. for the other brands in that price
> > range.
> > > But a number of reviewers report terrible interactions with their
> > warranty
> > > support. Anybody here have similar issues? Is the likelihood of failure
> > > low enough to ignore this issue? (My plan is to have the SSD my only
> > > drive, and backup of data but not a duplicate of the system.)
> >
> > Denis,
> >
> >    My experience since I bought my first Seagate 20M ST225 in 1985 is
> > having
> > one drive fail about a dozen years ago ... a WD Black 500G which the
> > company
> > immediately replaced. I suspect the truism that if electonics don't
> quickly
> > fail they'll last a long time still holds.
> >
> >    I have the same Samsung 850 EVO 480G SSD in my Dell Latitude E5410
> and a
> > smaller Samsung 160G SSD in my Dell Latitude 2100. I don't think about
> > failure of the drives.
> >
> >    As long as you back up your /home and data you're covered ... except
> for
> > the time involved in replacing the failed drive and re-installing your
> > favorite distribution.
> >
> > Rich
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