"I demonstrated its reliableness to a friend, by throwing the SSD from the roof of my house. It still works in my PC"
That is called durability not reliability.
I still don't trust them, I saw 4 drives burn out inside a year all just over a year old. This is not to say that I won't use them, I just don't trust them.
You know what I was getting at. They go hand-in-hand. The point is the drive hasn't failed (reliability) despite physical tests (durability).
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I think its safe to say that a good percentage SSD failure rates and rants about them failing comes down to the appalling quality of OCZ's drives in the past. Many RMA lists looked like an OCZ catalogue.
hmm reliability well I have 2 Intel Postville's running for about 4 years now 2 of which in gaming pc 2 years of it in my fileserver. SMART tells me 0 reallocated sectors upon 18000 hours that it's been working on both drives.
So yeah I consider them safer than HDD's.
"Or is our data safer on mechanical hard drives?"
- I think the answer would be yes, only because if you had an SSD and an HDD that both craped out for what ever reason you are more likely to get your information back from a disk then an ssd
not that ssd shouldn't be trusted its just that if something goes wrong the chances of you getting your data back vs getting your data from an hdd is very slim
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I think my problem with them is, if my spindle motor dies in my HDD then I can have the data recovered if need be, with a SSD its unlikely data can be recovered.
lol thinking the same thing at the same time.
I agree and I have seen a presentation on forensic hard drive data recovery and they also stated that it is difficult to recover data from and SSD than an HDD due to that all the SSDs do not use standardized parts across the board. Also since data is stored randomly rather than sequentially it's difficult to know in what chip the data one is looking of stored in what chip, let alone if only part of the data is in there.
I doubt you are willing to spend a few hundred bucks for recovery what you can prevent with a sync to another drive. Which costs you what... an extra drive.
So I really call that argument you give a bit bogus.