Re: SSDs and the Reliability Factor

SSDs still report problems via S.M.A.R.T. (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. ) so if MHDD (never heard of it
before) can read those messages it should be fine. File system & surface
scans are unchanged as are activities like partitioning. Keep in mind the
OS & controller are now talking to a logical layer: the drive's firmware.
The firmware translates that into the physical. That should sound familiar
to us midrange folks.

I'd hazard a guess that while file system scans will always be necessary,
surface scans will not. Between better reporting capabilities and the
remapping that SSDs inherently do, bad sector isolation will move into
firmware territory and away from things the operator has to be concerned
with.

At the consumer level, Win7 is more aware of SSDs and will do things like
support TRIM and not automatically schedule defrags (Vista shipped with
defrag automatically on; with XP it's a manual process by default).

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM, ibm <ibm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sounds like MHDD utility needs a new release.

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