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<blockquote data-quote="alank2" data-source="post: 1334616" data-attributes="member: 108">Hi,SSD&#039;s are just coming around.&nbsp; Most manufacturers warranty them for 3 years.&nbsp; To be honest a lot of hard drives which should be a solid technology get bad reviews for dying too so I&#039;m not sure they are that much better.&nbsp; Probably just not made that well as they should be.If you need lots of storage (since your asking for an external drive), you likely won&#039;t be looking at a SSD anyway.Backup is the name of the game.&nbsp; I use imaging software to backup all my systems partitions and I synchronize these images to a pair of external hard drives that one is always kept off site at the bank.&nbsp; If your data is important, back it up!&nbsp; RAID 1 is great to protect from a drive failure, but if a nasty virus or trojan comes along and deletes your data and you aren&#039;t able to undelete it, you can still lose data on a fault tolerant raid.Good luck,Alan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="alank2, post: 1334616, member: 108"] Hi, SSD's are just coming around. Most manufacturers warranty them for 3 years. To be honest a lot of hard drives which should be a solid technology get bad reviews for dying too so I'm not sure they are that much better. Probably just not made that well as they should be. If you need lots of storage (since your asking for an external drive), you likely won't be looking at a SSD anyway. Backup is the name of the game. I use imaging software to backup all my systems partitions and I synchronize these images to a pair of external hard drives that one is always kept off site at the bank. If your data is important, back it up! RAID 1 is great to protect from a drive failure, but if a nasty virus or trojan comes along and deletes your data and you aren't able to undelete it, you can still lose data on a fault tolerant raid. Good luck, Alan [/QUOTE]

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