On 5/26/11, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > Spinning disks seem an awful lot like victorian technology taken too far. > In > the long term, what's *not* to like about the idea of fully solid state > storage? Personally, I'm averse to using SSD with any important long term data is the nightmare that I could one day wake up to find everything gone without any means of recovery. Compared that to a hard disk, which barring catastrophic physical damage, I could pay somebody to just read the data off the platter. As a performance boosting intermediary storage, yes, long term... maybe not quite yet.