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Originally Posted by chasedude
Yeah I know nothing is 100%, but yet there wont be the many mechanical errors with the older platter HD's. Getting rid of those read/write arms will make quite a difference.
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Yes, but SSD also comes with its own read/write concerns.
It's important to note that right now, there is considerable variance in the quality of SSD drives. I would highly recommend doing excess research on various models if you're interested in a SSD setup. Don't go cheap. There's lots of cheaper models right now that are essentially garbage and shouldn't be trusted beyond a year. The newer drives provide much more longevity.
There's 2 types of SSD drives available right now, "MLC" and "SLC". MLC drives offer higher capacity, but slower write speeds and a shorter overall lifespan. An SLC drive offers lower capacity, but faster write speeds and a MUCH longer lifespan.
SSD drives are limited to a certain number of "writes" to the drive. Meaning you can only write data to each sector a certain number of times before it will eventually just fail. In most cases, that's not a huge concern. We're talking around 5 years of nonstop "writes" before it would be a concern. And there is some load balancing technology in play as well, where it will preventing writing to the same sector continuously, so as to balance out the wear over the entire drive.
But some of the older MLC drives don't do the load balancing very well, if at all, and they're made with crappy parts.
SSD drives are far from perfect. But they're getting much better.