Are the Solid State Drives

more realiable then the ones they are gradually replacing?

They soon will be my friend... very soon...

How reliable is your other flash devices?

It's only silicone and nano chips, still open to what ever faults may happen to modern technology. Nothing is perfect. That said, they have no moving parts, so there's less mechanically to go wrong, it also means less heat which also means better battery life and less power consumption.

The only caveat which SSD's present is their write/delete life span. It is said that they can only be written to and have data erased 'x' amount of times before it is no long able to be written to. The general consensus is an average 10 year life span. YMMV depending on the amount of writing/deleting to the memory modules.

Always have a back up HD, no matter what the format type !

Doug

That is not good... ...

I ask because I am on my third HD now. Last one lasted under a month

What are you doing to them?

I mean in all my years of computing I have to say I never had a hard drive go bad. Not saying I won't, but it doesn't honestly seem to be that common of an occurrence.

I'm in the same boat as schweb. I've owned dozens of hard drives over the past fifteen years and only one failed on me, and that was due to user error and not mechanical failure (I accidentally snapped the SATA connector off). I still have 12GB and 20GB drives, which are almost ten years old, laying around somewhere that still work.

first to fail was the original and it lasted about 3 years.
The second one replaced that and failed in less then 30 days.
Waiting for the replacement now.
I am not doing anything. I have a cool pad that I run all the time to keep the heat down. It only leaves my house to get repaired lol. So I have no idea why its failing.