Timeline for Why was my question closed as off-topic?
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| Oct 29, 2020 at 19:15 | comment | added | geekley | I wonder why was this one closed as off-topic. Is this the wrong site to ask hardware-related questions? | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 20:07 | comment | added | qris | Thanks Chris. I agree with your assessment of the opex of using cheap drives, but I'm having difficulty persuading the project owner. I did try to find those reliability surveys without much luck (no hard data yet). It seems from my research that this particular drive is an SSDNow V+200 which is a SF-2281 controller? So this drive would meet your criteria? | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 17:56 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | Cheap has different meanings. Most people think of cheap as low CapEx, which Kingston certainly is. But in "professional" situations TCO should be the measure of cheap. The Kingston drives are going to be somewhat more likely to fail that many other brands, and the drive/downtime OpEx to replace is certainly going to eat up any savings in CapEx. There are reviews around the net for reliable SSDs (I personally use SandForce 2000 or newer based products). | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 17:33 | comment | added | qris | This is an offline content cache server for schools in rural zambia. All the content is replaceable. It has to be cheap because schools are budget-limited and there will be a lot of them. But it also has to be reliable because it might be 8 hours each way on bad roads to replace. I'm not allowed to ask here what drives are not "ultra-cheap crap". I thought maybe a SECURITY ERASE might fix the bad sectors, but wanted opinions of others, or on what I might have missed in the SMART data. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Agreed - About the only reason I can think of that this got closed as off-topic is the possibly-incorrect assumption that nobody in their right mind would put a Kingston SSD in a server destined for use in a professional environment (i.e. people incorrectly assumed it was a "home use" question). That said, RobM's comment pretty much sums up how we treat hard drive failure questions. We should probably find a canonical questionfor them. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 16:32 | history | answered | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |