Flyboy, newness of SSD? We used SSD in enterprise class servers at least 5 years ago. Is that too new? I'd hazard a guess those drives supporting ~100,000 users did a little more I/O activity than the average pc.
Sure sometimes you'll get a dud SSD. If you purchase enough HDD you'll get duds too. We had purchased and installed 2000 HDD the year before I retired. They started failing the first week. We had at least a 200 failures over the first 6 months, it wasn't unusual if 4 or 5 would fail the same day.
Working with the vendor it was determined that it was just batch of drives with consecutive serial numbers that happened to have a high failure rate.
The more I think about the article the "author's" writing contains the same amount of factual information as an E.J. Jones commercial.
Just a suggestion if you looking at the cost of SSD don't. Just get a hybrid drive, much cheaper all the same benefits. If there's a downside to hybrid vs SSD someone please educate me.
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