So they cannot get wrecked by physical shaking

@Aerione knows his shit.

HDDs will, however

Still

please SSDs can fail but the warning signs are so obvious

Going by the TLC/MLC standards set by the manufacturers

that in a few decades or so

"so obvious"

The cells should last double the duration of an HDD, at worst?

you'll have it not work anymore and move your data out

"OH OOPS YOUR FILE IS CORRUPT : ^)"

if you see a help ! my ssd is broken thread on /g then it's me..

"OH WHAT IS THAT? OH MY FILE SYSTEM JUST GOT CORRUPTED"

Windows 8 and up warn you when you SSD starts to fail

And that's roughly 2 thousand or so cycles before it does

can't like disk drives quarantine the damaged sectors and still be usable except for the damaged part ? why do they have to fuck up all at once ?

So far, I haven't actually seen that warning screencap show up anywhere, so I assume we'll have to wait a bit longer

windows normally warns you when your hdd is about to fail too

doesn't work errytiem

Yeah

Cause HDDs can break physically

You cannot account for that

If the spinner fails, it's gone

If the platter fails, it's gone

The creator of the Linux kernel blogged this week that the SSD in his workstation simply stopped working, interrupting his work on the Linux 3.12 kernel.

"The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my main workstation just died on me," Torvalds wrote. "I had pushed out most of my pulls today, so realistically I didn't lose a lot of work."

If the electricity fails, it's gone

ssds can break physically too

If you open it up and wreck it that way, yes

"oops that solder point just came loose"

While there are no moving parts in an SSD, the semiconductor components can fail. For example, a NAND die, the SSD controller, capacitors, or other passive components can -- and do -- slowly wear out or fail entirely.

"If the electricity fails, it's gone"
No, its not. I unplugged my pc many times before.

"oops because of chinkshit engineering this solder point being loose just caused the whole ssd to wipe itself"

@trackky Referring to when it's interrupted hastily during an operation

"oops the ssd just shorted out between a data pin and a power pin"

It might corrupt an entire sector

SSDs require a capacitor and power supplies, which are vulnerable to malfunctions — especially in the case of a power surge or a power failure. In fact, in the case of a power failure, SSDs have been known to corrupt existing data too, even if the drive itself hasn’t failed completely.

Those sounds like issues you'd find out about right away, though

Just like with anything else

so do hard drives @Jignx

@Jignx that's the most common failure in the good SSDs you buy here, yes, but with chink ssds you never know if the soldering's shitty or something

We're talking about the possibility of it dying after a year of data storage