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<blockquote data-quote="Zagan" data-source="post: 725466" data-attributes="member: 112061">No time machine needed,&nbsp; I have hard drives that have lasted for 10 years some are still going.SSDs have no moving parts, solid metal casing, slightly smaller than the size of a credit card and weigh around 100 grams be pretty hard to kill it unless it got zapped in a storm, but the power box would go before that happened, after all they are designed for laptops not so much desktop computers.The life time of the memory chips used in a SSD drive, ist 114 years before the memory chips themselves die.people with SSDs complain more at the the slowing of speed than the life but Trim support is there to combat that but when people talk about slowing they mean... it's only read/write around 100 meg a second so it's not exactly slow slow.Ram disks and windows can make these drives isn't anything new (been around since the 80's) but if you want to keep the data on them you need to dump the data off to another drive, so a brown out can wipe or drop these drives, the other problem is the ram drive will only be a couple gigs in size, I used to use a memory stick for the page file to help windows out and it was 2gig and the page file would fill it at times causing windows to stall and other problems.I wouldn't be scared of SSDs as in a few years they'll kill the old hard drives as they are starting to get up to 500+gig.Only problem with HDD is fragging it up too much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zagan, post: 725466, member: 112061"] No time machine needed, I have hard drives that have lasted for 10 years some are still going. SSDs have no moving parts, solid metal casing, slightly smaller than the size of a credit card and weigh around 100 grams be pretty hard to kill it unless it got zapped in a storm, but the power box would go before that happened, after all they are designed for laptops not so much desktop computers. The life time of the memory chips used in a SSD drive, ist 114 years before the memory chips themselves die. people with SSDs complain more at the the slowing of speed than the life but Trim support is there to combat that but when people talk about slowing they mean... it's only read/write around 100 meg a second so it's not exactly slow slow. Ram disks and windows can make these drives isn't anything new (been around since the 80's) but if you want to keep the data on them you need to dump the data off to another drive, so a brown out can wipe or drop these drives, the other problem is the ram drive will only be a couple gigs in size, I used to use a memory stick for the page file to help windows out and it was 2gig and the page file would fill it at times causing windows to stall and other problems. I wouldn't be scared of SSDs as in a few years they'll kill the old hard drives as they are starting to get up to 500+gig. Only problem with HDD is fragging it up too much. [/QUOTE]

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