SSD worth it?

[peeryus]

Vantec HDA-252P @ R52

Many walk-in stores should have a similar accessory, but yes, they are out there. Some SSD brands like ADATA and Kingston have a bundle which includes the 3.5" adapter as well.



Your answer lies here, courtesy of Southbit. There is a chance, but it's going to be expensive.

Thanks Wesley

 

[bwana]

Your answer lies here, courtesy of Southbit. There is a chance, but it's going to be expensive.

Thanks.

 

[DominionZA]

If you didn't have a recent backup what's the likelihood of recovering data from a failed SSD compared to an HDD?

Well considering how dead my SSD was, I would suppose none.
I have never had a totally dead HDD and managed to do data recovery on those to some extent.

I had a failed HDD once before in a raid array. My lack of experience recovery on a raid setup resulted in a loss of data unfortunately.

 

[LinuxMan]

yes im running the OCZ vector SSD... what a device!

My notebook - Core i7 Ivy - had a Vertex 2 128GB in it as primary and rocked. One morning it was dead as a door nail (known issues with the V2). I always have image backups run every Sun night so it was not an issue to get the original HDD, restore the image and back to work in about 2 hours. I was shocked at the degradation in overall system performance on the HDD. It was SLOWWWWWWWW. Terrible to use.

The up side of this was the Vertex 2 got collected by Sybaritic, and a week later a Vertex 3 returned back to me Both the Vertex 3 and 4 I have are solid as a rock.