SSDs not really more reliable than mechanical drives

[synergy]

^ yea that's certainly an important issue to consider. However, that capped amount on most drives is in the hundreds of thousands (for Intel drives, 100GB per day for five years.) I think in a beta testing environment an SSD would be a huge benefit. I can install an OS in under 15 minutes (from DVD boot to installing programs.) Plus, just the speed at which it's up and running after a reboot is a big advantage. I think what makes it a bigger concern is just the price/GB of the drives.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

I will stick with my good old hard drives, quiet a few are around 10 years older, and a lot are at the 5-6 year marks.

 

[MindoverMaster]

I still have a 2GB hdd from the 386 days. No practical use, but it still works.

 

[Apokalipse]

If HP is successful in developing viable permanent memory from memristors, that could give SSD's a significant step forward.
They currently use NAND flash memory, which is made from transistors - several transistors per bit.

Being able to use a single memristor in place of several transistors would use a lot less volume per bit, and the reduced complexity would hopefully increase reliability.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

It isn't really the complexity, it's more or less, we have multiple parts to do one thing, and one almost always breaks yet the others are good, replacing those multiples with a single, would be good in the fact that theres a lesser chance of it failing.

 

[Apokalipse]

less parts = less complexity