John Hodrien wrote:
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
So having SSD in laptop (if they are unreliable) is not much of an option, unless I am going to carry duplicate HDD/SSD just in case this one crashes.
I'd argue that's just one of the risks you run with a laptop. In a laptop you've typically got one battery, one charger, one screen, one disk (SSD or not), a less reliable DVD drive. I'm just not convinced SSDs are the pit of doom you seem to think they are. I'd personally guess that coffee is a bigger threat to travelling laptops than SSD failures.
But I would not.
- I battery dies, I would run on PSU. - If PSU is dead I would run on battery until I locally buy universal PSU for my voltage. - If DVD dies, I would borrow/locally buy USB rack/Drive. - If integrated LAN dies I would buy cheap USB LAN NIC or use wireless (buy Wireless AP if needed) - If integrated Wireless radio dies I would buy another wireless radio or use LAN (buy Wireless AP/client if needed) - If Screen or MB dies, or anything else **except** HDD (in any form and with my system) I will unplug my system HDD (some laptops/notebooks/netbooks have SSD + HDD) or even copy system partition to another HDD and boot it and finish my mission/task. I am able to successfully, and *every* time boot old system (either Windows or Linux) on any new MB/HDD controller chipset, but I am not able to reinstall entire system will all the custom settings is short time.
So, from *my* point of view, reliability always takes precedence before speed, unless I can have both.
Ljubomir - 11 years in backing up and repairing OS-es