Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com writes:
And please, PLEASE make sure you have a reliable and consistent backup procedure. I like SSDs, but when they die they generally die catastrophically and completely (at least in my experience) and you may not be able to recover anything from them.
You can do rsyncs from /etc/cron.daily onto a spare, normally unmounted and spun-down, disk. That way if your SSD ever goes south, you lose at most a day's work. When I got my ssd I wasn't sure what to expect, so I figured I'd play it safe. The only time I needed the daily backup was a goof that did involve the ssd, but was the result of confusion as to which directory I was in. The incredible speed of the SSD allowed me to delete a few thousand pictures in approximately a second. SSD's: allowing you to make mistakes faster than ever before. ;-)
-wolfgang