At first, I used to think SSD has no moving part, it should be significant reliable than HDD, and this is many people perception as well, I reckon

But to my disappointment, after reading many complaint about SSD, and search through, SSD also subjected to failure as well despite no moving parts in it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-re...ate,2923-3.html

SSD failure % can be on par with HDD as well.

Just HDD being mass use around, that's why we see many complaint about dead HDD.
For eg. There are 500 million of HDD in the market, a 1% failure means we see 5 million dead HDD, and complaints around.
While there may be only 1 million of SSD, even at failure rate of 2%, we only see 20k dead SSD.

5 million dead HDD vs 20k SSD, the figure look huge difference, but it doesn't say SSD is more reliable or not.

HDD become cheap, doesn't mean QC also must become "cheap".

So those product that sold in few buck which is cheap in cost, so QC also no bother to check?
Unrelated.

HDD is not going to be sold at few buck, (can keep on dream for it, but won't happen), same like just like processor, ram and other hardware.
Manufacturers will opt to obsolete the product, once it get too cheap that not viable to produce in term of cost.

Also expensive doesn't mean QC is top notch, and consumer won't get a defective product.

Whether firmware or not, or hardware itself or firmware, once the computer BSODs, cannot boot up again, be it HDD or SSD even physical is not damaged, as a consumer, we facing the same consequence, a dead computer that cannot function.

Reliability is about we can continously using the computer without any problem/glitch.

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Added on July 18, 2012, 10:52 pmYes, it is premature to judge on SSD.

Still think SSD tech is far more maturing, especially on firmware issue.

Saw those experience suddenly SSD cannot function due to firmware issue in the SSD thread or a sudden SSD malfunction, my company still decide to use HDD for the latest purchase of office computer.

Fyi, my company office still got computer using a 80GB HDD (which is largest at that time), still functioning strong.


This post has been edited by cherroy: Jul 18 2012, 10:52 PM

Just a discussion, a "fall down" or "dropped" HDD, shouldn't be the data on the disk itself is still intact? or electromagnetism on the disk itself (that storing the data) will be loss on the disk due to the fall?

As I reckon, when the HDD is not in operation (when carried along), a dropped could means damage the mechanical part of the HDD, as head is parked during idle (non-operation), there shouldn't be any scratches on the disk.

I have the same taught that SSD should be very reliable since there is no mechanical part, but after I read this article, I only realised SSD may be as super reliable than I taught previous.
Yes, it may be better, but SSD is not without failure as well.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-re...ate,2923-3.html

From the stat posted on SSD failure rate, the failure rate is about just slight better with HDD or a notch better than HDD.

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Added on November 11, 2012, 3:39 pmIf worry about data, the always and better solution is backup or RAID.

This post has been edited by cherroy: Nov 11 2012, 03:39 PM

Yes, you need to format in GPT to see the 3TB.
2TB is the limitation of MBR format.