I want the fastest NAS setup possible...

[simoncn]

(25-02-2013 15:42)NickP Wrote:  Sorry, I don't know the failure mode; what's important is that the reliability of a solid-state device is actually lower than its hardware equivalent, contrary to virtually everything we understand. Perhaps in this application - store music & don't change it - it doesn't matter, but it should still be taken into consideration.
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I agree that SSDs are less reliable in the long term. Another point in favour of HDDs is that there's often some early warning sign when things start to go bad, such as audible retries as the controller makes multiple attempts to read a failing sector. Also, even if a sector on some part of the HDD is unreadable, data from other areas of the disk can usually still be recovered. My understanding is that the whole SSD is liable to fail catastrophically at any time without any warning. This could happen to an HDD as well, but I think it's less likely.

As I type this, I can't help wondering why I'm taking the risk of using an SSD in my laptop (i.e., main computer). Then I stop typing and listen to the wonderful sound of silence, and I remember why.