Operating system and other advice please

Carrot007

Le_Kirk wrote: »

I suppose you mean because you get no warning, given that there are no moving parts, it doesn't slow down, get hot, have sector errors etc. BUT SSD's have no moving parts so should be LESS prone to failure than HDD's - at least I hope so!

Yes he mean that when SSD's fail you are very unlikely to get any data back. However they are less likely to actually fail than standard HDD's.

You could remove the chips and put on a new board but there is no standard so would be prohibitively costly!

esuhl

enfield_freddy wrote: »

so why mention it?

Well, obviously because I don't know if the OP takes backups, how frequently the backups are made, nor how valuable his/her data are.

Why mention the fact that you don't know why I mentioned it?! That doesn't help anyone.

Exo

If you take the SSD route, they need to be treated differently to HDD drives.
This guide will help.
http://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-things-you-shouldnt-do-with-solid-state-drives/