06-23-2014, 04:07 PM
Diggles Wrote:Just FYI Flashdrives are not for backup purposes. Sure the likelihood of anything happening is low, but they are not anywhere near as reliable as DVD's, cloud or External HD. I would NEVER keep my only backups on a flashdrive. I've had a client or two who have done this and regretted it.
Welcome to the world of SSD's
I'd like to know your data on this other than a "client or two." The bottom line is it is an extremely poor financial decision to use SSD as a backup and I would never do it nor recommend it, but there have been pretty exhaustive investigations, Tom's Hardware was one but a bit dated, and reliability is considered a tad better on SSDs than HDDs and steadily getting better with SSDs as the tech improves and firmware is debugged. With virtually no spinning parts that HDDs require there is a lot less that can go wrong on an SSD, however when SSDs fail, they generally fail badly and are unrecoverable. HDDs have the chance of pulling the data off the platters if you are desperate. But HDD have had a 60 year head start on SSDs but are already losing the reliability battle.
One expert is claiming an SSD failure rate of 1.5% to 5% for HDDs: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242367/SSDs_i_do_i_die_as_Linus_Torvalds_just_discovered?taxonomyId=234&pageNumber=1">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... geNumber=1</a><!-- m -->
Having said all that I would take an SSD any day of the week over a DVD if price were no option for storage. DVD is a HORRIBLE long term storage medium and very susceptible to environmental factors. Not to mention a dead tech. I haven't had a DVD drive in my home PC in years.