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From: Martin Gregorie on 21 Jan 2010 17:12 On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:21 +0000, Baron wrote: >> It's just that instability, particularly non-pervasive instability, is >> generally software's fault. If e.g. *everything* starts going wrong at >> once in inconsistent and constantly-changing ways, *then* I'd start to >> suspect hardware, but not before. (Plus, obviously, some failures, like >> disk failures, are obvious when they happen. But disks are weird: I >> mean, *moving parts*? How primitive!) > > Solid state HDD will fall in price as the take up grows. Couple of > years maybe. ;-) > But, just like hard drives and writable optical drives, any SSD based on current or related technology *will* wear out and fail after its designed number of rewrites. Does anybody know yet if, like writable optical drives, flash memory degrades with time if unused? -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Baron on 22 Jan 2010 17:56 Martin Gregorie Inscribed thus: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:21 +0000, Baron wrote: > >>> It's just that instability, particularly non-pervasive instability, >>> is generally software's fault. If e.g. *everything* starts going >>> wrong at once in inconsistent and constantly-changing ways, *then* >>> I'd start to suspect hardware, but not before. (Plus, obviously, >>> some failures, like disk failures, are obvious when they happen. But >>> disks are weird: I mean, *moving parts*? How primitive!) >> >> Solid state HDD will fall in price as the take up grows. Couple of >> years maybe. ;-) >> > But, just like hard drives and writable optical drives, any SSD based > on current or related technology *will* wear out and fail after its > designed number of rewrites. I agree, they will. But they are certainly more robust than existing mechanical drives. They can only get better, bigger and cheaper. > Does anybody know yet if, like writable optical drives, flash memory > degrades with time if unused? > Good question. I would suspect that they do. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: Nix on 26 Jan 2010 17:51
On 26 Jan 2010, Paul Martin said: > In article <6Ut9BkAO4yULFwR0(a)jasper.org.uk>, > Mike Tomlinson wrote: >> In article <87aaweuc6y.fsf(a)spindle.srvr.nix>, Nix <nix-razor- >> pit(a)esperi.org.uk> writes > >>> Slowing the RAM to 1066MHz fixed the problem completely: > >> Didn't read the manual, did you? > > By Sellar and Yeatman? Quite so. I don't understand Mike's comment: the manual says nothing relevant. |