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simoncn · (This post was last modified: 25-02-2013 12:08 by simoncn.)

(25-02-2013 11:19)NickP Wrote: I'm pretty sure that SSDs have a shorter service life than hardware disks; the fact of writing data degrades the electronics' ability to hold data (a feature of flash memory) so an SSD's life in some environments could be considerably shorter than an HDD's. It's along the lines of an HDD having a "Mean Time Before Failure" whereas an SSD has "Mean Writes Before Failure".
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Does this long-term degradation cause a catastrophic failure where the complete contents are lost, or will it begin to write/read the occasional bad block at first? I had expected the latter, but I'm not completely sure.