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Admittedly, I don’t know much about computers, so you might want to ignore my advice. But I always go by the old saying “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
SSDs do have a finite lifespan, but it’s much longer than you need.
Easy.
It’s a laptop and nobody should be storing their data there for more than a few days before also saving it to the server.
Go with lightweight flash, no reason to be a Luddite. And no reason for your users to perceive you as such.
I’ve replaced several in laptops for our company. The end users love it. 10 times faster boot and office apps open on demand. I have had SSD in a server for almost 4 years now and zero problems. Just replaced one in a terminal server over the weekend. As expected apps open on demand and booted up in less than 15 seconds.
If I have an HDD failure those will be replaced by SSD. No going back that’s for sure!
SSDs, and you shouldn’t be depending on life of the drive given the regular backups of data you are doing. Right?
SSD performance delta over spinny drives matters if your people’s time is worth anything at all.
Go with SSD. Modern, well-known manufacturers (not some backwater no-name from Wuhan) will last—and allow millions of read/writes—longer than the laptop will keep it’s warranty.
Consider an iPad. it doesn’t have a hard drive. Just memory chips. Have you ever heard of an iPad no longer working because it can no longer hold data? Much more likely you toss it because it’s old and you can’t get the latest software version of iOS.
https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/ipad-hard-drive-21129.html
We use SSD’s in all company laptops, as obsolescence issues obviate any need to worry about drive mtbf, primarily for battery life improvement.
Our graphic workstations use SSD’s for OS and graphics programs, with a second conventional disk for all other local storage requirements.
No, they do NOT have a predetermined lifespan. Laptops benefit greatly from SSD since spindle drives are subject to drop damage. SSD also has significantly better performance and can bring new life to older laptops.
I thought it was surely Johnny Carson or Ed Sullivan. Turns out it was the Bartle and James commercials. At least that is what I found.
SSD. They detect bad blocks and remap them internally. I’ve had the same one in my work laptop for 8 years and no problems.
pros and cons to both
actually had this discussion with a buddy about a month ago
Once you use a laptop with an SSD, you will never want to use a old hard drive equipped one again. They are far and away the best performance upgrade you can make. Issues with them wearing out are way over stated, too. The average user could use a machine for more than a decade without wearing out the SSD. The other BIG upside is reliability and drop safety. With a spinning hard drive, if you smack the machine hard enough, the read/write arms in the HDD will bounce off the spinning platter and then your drive is toast. SSDs are far superior in this regard.
My advice is to make the switch. You won’t be sorry. Your data will be safer and your laptops will be usable far longer (in terms of performance).
Mechanical drives are fragile, I haven’t bought one and at least seven years. I could not imagine putting on any computer today. They are slow as well. Almost any solid-state drive will have better specs and a longer time between failure.
This should be easy.
90% of laptops supplied by companies to their employees for work use have SSD’s installed.
If its good enough for Intel and IBM, it should work fine for you.
I will never go back to HDD. The SDD runs circles around HDD and the cost is below where HDDs used to be not so long ago. Just back up often, which you would do anyway, and keep copies of any critical files in a safe place.
ssd’s do have a limited lifespan the ram architecture is now stacked so heat buildup can wipe out/eventually damage a broader area of the ssd. ram will get worn out start failing after so many write operations.
pricewise for the memory platter drives are superior. they have come a long way preventing physical damage occurring.
They are a whole lot faster. A 500GB SSD gave my 12-year old Dell Latitude E6500 a whole new lease on life. It’s fast enough for development work now.
As far as your media problem, without a time machine or the gift of prophecy it is difficult to know what the future will hold.
Some thoughts:
Something without moving pieces usually lasts longer than those with.
I have a voice recorder I got from Radio Shack 10 years ago. It has ‘static memory’. I haven’t used it for 8 years. Got it out of the drawer and it works, everything I recorded is still on it.
Even the SSD storage will eventually be replaced by something else. It is the nature of the beast (electronics industry).
SSD for the win. I switched all my boxes to SSD years ago and have not had any issues. So much faster for boot, reading and writing. Never a need to defrag. More energy efficient. You should be backing up your systems anyway, so even if one craps out after a few years (which none of mine have), it’s super simple just to throw in a replacement and restore the backup. I would never go back to spinning drives.