The laptops in my org stay online 24/7/365, and I’m afraid we’ll reach that barrier a lot faster than most. I’m thinking that if I update to a 7200 RPM HHD and 16 GBs of memory, that would speed them up significantly.
It’s not the powered on time that is finite but rather it’s the volume of data that can be written before the memory cells begin to fail. This limit is quantified in terms of DWPD, data written per day, or TWB, terrabytes written. IMHO it’s safe to estimate that a modern SSD will last 4+ years under typical office load. I’ve read that based upon data center usage SSD’s fail less often than HDDs. I say go with SSDs. Good luck.
The supposed limits of SSD life are based on number of writes not how long they're powered on. Unless they're reading and writing 24x7, that should be irrelevant.
Same here. Small population tho'.
SSD failure mode is "data lost, period."
SSD failure rate depends on maker, and is never zero.
i LOVE LOVE LOVE SSD. Backup to spinning iron, with at least two duplicates there.
No brainer to me, SSD on the laptop. Much higher tolerance of drops, so much faster, and the downside risk of data loss is easy to manage. Copy to off the laptop.