Point of getting an SSD?

Seagates have always been a go to of mine. Western Digitals have been good. lately I have used the Samsung line of drives, which is now owned by Seagate. I've rarely ever had a hard drive fail at home.

pparks1 said:

Seagates have always been a go to of mine. Western Digitals have been good. lately I have used the Samsung line of drives, which is now owned by Seagate. I've rarely ever had a hard drive fail at home.

My current hard drive is Seagate, but I've had it for a few years. It clicked a couple times and then I fixed the cables on it, and it stopped clicking. It passes all the tests, but who knows. That's why I'm going to get a new one.

I've always bought either Western Digital or Seagate, depending on what was available and at what price. I've had similar success and failure with both brands.

The latest drive I've had fail (unexpectedly) was a Western Digital Scorpio Black 1TB after about 1 year of 24/7 service.

The shortest lifespan I've seen was a Seagate. I bought 2 250GB drives, one failed within 24 hours, the other is still in 24/7 service today (see screenshot).

At any rate, all this is merely anecdotal, without getting a meaningful sample size it's really just a matter of your own personal preference.

I like to clarify 2 points:

1. A 60GB SSD is ample for the OS and a good selection of programs (unless you have very large games) By now I own 7 SSDs and the biggest is 90GB - but that is in a laptop where I have no other disk. All my /7 desktops run on 60GB including 2 virtual partitions for Ubuntu and Windows 8. All my user data is on the HDDs.

2. Referring to your post #27 - it is a BIG mistake if you do not backup your data, especially on an external drive. Those are the ones that die first. I just had an external Seagate go sour. Fortunately I had everything backed up to another external drive. Never keep your data on only 1 single disk. One can never have enough disks (internal or external) to replicate the data.

The OS and the programs are easy to replace. Best, of course, with a recent image. But even a reinstall from scratch is no disaster - just time consuming. But if you lose the data that you have accumulated over the years, that is bad news. And the bookmarks should be treated like data.