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Re: Paintshop and Corel

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SubjectRe: Paintshop and Corel
Fromnospam
Date12/02/2013 20:28 (12/02/2013 14:28)
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In article <l7ilo6$fup$2@dont-email.me>, David Taylor <david-taylor@blueyonder.co.uk.invalid>wrote:

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some ssds now come with longer warranties than hard drives. that should tell you something.

David Taylor
You need to understand the way you use the disk. Use it a lot, and you will have invalidated that warranty.

nospam
nonsense. there is no way anyone can tell how heavily it was used.

David Taylor
An SSD fails sooner if it is used more, because of the finite number of write cycles each cell has.

so does a hard drive, and if it fails sooner, it will more likely fail within warranty rather than afterwards, so you'll get a free replacement.

I would not trust any guarantee which did not specify the net data write in some way or other.

hard drives don't do that, so why expect it of an ssd?

if something has a 10 year warranty, or even 5 year, that's longer than its useful life. i'm already starting to replace drives i bought 3-4 years ago, not because they failed but because i need more space.

and if an ssd or hd fails, restore from a backup. it's not the end of the world.