Corsair Nova Series SSD
anyone have one?
Friday, August 13, 2010 by MadDeez | Discussion: Personal Computing
I'm seriously considering buying one of these. Anyone out there have one? If yes, what are your impressions and are you happy with it?
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Reply #42 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 4:07 PM
Reply #43 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 4:13 PM
all a matter of your setup. I use raid 0 but backup my data regularly, so if a drive blows out, then that's that. Obviously, without a good backup strategy, there is risk (even if you aren't using raid 0). But yeah, always sucks to lose a drive.
Unlike hard disk drives, SSDs have no moving parts, just electronics, so they should be an order of magnitude more reliable. Of course, FLASH memory does have one MAJOR drawback: it can only be written to so many times (which is why the controller and algorithms used in an SSD are so important, as they spread write operations, minimizing the number of times a single flash cell is written to during the life of the drive).
On the other hand, from what I read and unlike a hard disk, a SSD at the end of its life will not become inaccessible, causing you to lose data: instead, the data in it will just become read-only.
Either way, as so many people have found out the hard way, regular (automated if possible) full backups are a must. Otherwise it's not a question of IF you lose data, but WHEN. And with the price of external 1 TB hard disk drives being so low, there is no excuse not to backup your data (you can even automate backups and make mirror images of your hard disk(s), so you can be up and running again in the minimum amount of time, using software like Acronis True Image).
Here backups are automatically made to two external hard disk drives in alternate fashion, keeping multiple versions up to 3 months old around, and, once a week, critical data is backed up to an offsite location via FTP. All without me having to worry about a thing (except verify from time to time that backups are indeed being performed as they should).
Reply #44 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 4:36 PM
I have a 256 GB Crucial SSD and I'm quite pleased with it. If you want some sick speeds from your SSD drives, it's better to get several smaller ones (40-60 GB) and merge them in the RAID field. This is where they truly shine. OFC with the number of disks in the RAID increases chance of disk failure and losing ALL the date in those disks. You have some silly extreme tests of it in youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
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Reply #41 Wednesday, September 8, 2010 8:40 AM
all a matter of your setup. I use raid 0 but backup my data regularly, so if a drive blows out, then that's that. Obviously, without a good backup strategy, there is risk (even if you aren't using raid 0). But yeah, always sucks to lose a drive.