Is SSD more reliable than HDD?

[Steve D]

Without much fanfare here or on the Brennan website, the B2 now comes with the option of 240g or 480g solid state drives as well as the 2Tb HDD (this was one of the features on my wish list for the B3!).

Given comments in this forum about the need to backup because 'it's not if your HDD will fail, but when...', are SDDs more reliable than HDDs?

Capacity questions aside, if I go for a B2 with SSD would forum members (and Paul) still recommend backing it up?

Thanks for all your help and previous forum discussions which I have found extremely useful in coming to a decision about the B2 (almost ready to press the 'Purchase' button!)

Steve

[Daniel Taylor]

I am not an expert on this subject.  But I will tell you what I think I know (for what little it's worth).

SSDs do fail, but for different reasons that HDDs.  I would definitely backup my music even if stored on a SSD.

The big advantage that SSDs have over HDDs is faster access time, which is great to improve bootup time.  The boot time on my B2 is about 10 seconds.  Also, the OS is stored on the SD card, not the HDD.  So having an SDD will not have any effect on boot time.

When I select a song to play, it takes probably less than a second to start playing.  It's fast enough that I've never tried to time it.  With an SDD, that already short access time would be shorter, but I doubt I would notice.  Once the song has started to play, either type of drive can keep up with the demand without any problem.

SSD is solid state and has no mechanical moving parts.  So in the case where it is dropped, it would be less likely to lose data.

Do a Google search for "Is SSD more reliable than HDD?" and you'll get more information.