Intel Short Movie Shows Horrors of HDDs

[wjw2000]

Hard drives can take a 6 Gforce Dive without damage so it makes since this video ends with "made by Rubbish"

 

[XZaapryca]

That's what he gets for storing his crap on a pos external drive with no other back ups.

 

[xambron]

I watched 55 seconds of the video, what do I win?

 

[cookoy]

what pain, not losing memories, but watching a long boring video like this

 

[The_Prophecy]

This was a big waste of time. I pretended I hadn't read this article first when I watched the video. In doing so, I was so horribly confused as to what the point of the video was until the very end. This is not going to help Intel sell SSD's at all. Standard magnetic based drives are reliable enough for most people. SSD's I would say are less reliable than standard hard drives right now. The technology needs to be greatly improved in both capacity and reliability of the flash cells before I will make the switch. I just can't justify spending $2.00 per gigabyte for an SSD, when I can get a 1.5TB drive for less than 6 cents per gigabyte.

 

[joshyboy82]

I like the part where he was going to roll up his kid. "You mad? What're you going to do about it (laughs)".

 

[JimmiG]

The horrors of HDD? I thought it showed the horrors of LSD. There were some parts of it I didn't get..like approximately everything.

Either way, I wouldn't choose SSD's as my backup media. I currently have a 2TB drive for backups. Where's my $100, 2TB SSD, Intel? Sure, hard drives are not very reliable, but the chance of something happening to both my internal drives and the external drive at the same time or extremely small. Even if it did, I also have 50GB of my most important data on Dropbox.

 

[Guest]

For the guys who don't get it: I suspect that this ad isn't targeted at techies whose images and movies consist of terabytes of porn and TV series. It's targeted at your average social person who has tons of photos and videos of their experiences that they haven't backed up. By showing all the memories that are common to different segments of their target group (dad with memories of son, parties where people meet and get together, etc.) they elicit powerful emotions in the target group by reminding them of their own experiences.

Meanwhile it's showing these people how much it'd suck to lose the recorded copies of those memories. They target HDDs as the enemy. Personally, I think they screwed up towards the end: they didn't properly show people how to solve the problem. They should have made it clear that they think SSDs will solve the problem, but the video just kinda trails off. [Note: this is what THEY claim, not me.]

If you don't have kids, haven't partied and met some nice boys/girls, haven't travelled, etc. you're not going to have these memories and so the movie will probably make no sense to you. If you have done those things and have recorded images/videos, and it still makes no sense, you probably backup your stuff - unlike the vast majority of people

 

[Reynod]

Jane I have killed about 50 hard drives over the years ... some by acccident ... some beacuse they just cheesed me off ... some for fun.

Most recently it seems to be those external USB drives.

Is it just me or are they inferior??

Still I won't be wasting money on SSD's for my kids gaming machines ...they are just not worth the money ... yet.

 

[nukemaster]

Most recently it seems to be those external USB drives.

Is it just me or are they inferior??

Most external usb(from many companies) drives i see go still have a working drive, but the controller that converts usb to ide or sata just does not seem to be up to long term use.

 

[tsnor]

[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]If you ask Intel they'll say up to 100 years.[/citation]

No, they won't. Without power, an SSD retains data for less than a decade. eMLC flash which trades short data life and performance for less wear has a data life (power off) of less than a year. Intel uses eMLC in their new SSD drives. Sandforce says "DuraClass algorithmic assessment of each area and periodic refreshment maintain the retention of data for the full use-life of the system, which is warranted at five years regardless of duty cycle,"

 

[NuclearShadow]

For those that dislike this video you clearly just don't get it or don't have a mature mind to appreciate it. A beautiful work of art so meaningful and touching. ......B......u......y.......I....n....t...e...l

 

[bsbsbsbs]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]He shoulda backed his stuff up[/citation]
[citation][nom]_Pez_[/nom]If actually there are SSD's with the same storage space of HDD's 3Tb at the same price, then great. But if those SSD's are many more times expensive and many times lees storage space than one hard drive of 3 TB, then forget it I wont buy that, I wont waste my money in such thing.[/citation]

So if this happens, what would be the point of the HDD? Would you buy one instead of an SSD? You want better tech for the same price? You're a moron.

 

[capt_taco]

Let me know when a 1TB SSD doesn't cost the same as a used car, and then I'll think about buying one. Protecting your data is still a lot cheaper to do by buying the biggest conventional HDD you can find, then buying another one and putting them in RAID1. You'd have enough money left over for about 20 more hard drives after that.

 

[capt_taco]

[citation][nom]bsbsbsbs[/nom]So if this happens, what would be the point of the HDD? Would you buy one instead of an SSD? You want better tech for the same price? You're a moron.[/citation]

Not really too outrageous to want that. Or is your idea of the best machine available an Pentium 4 with DDR, AGP 4x slot, USB 1.0, CRT monitor and an IDE hard drive? New technology reaches the price of the old technology and then replaces it; it happens with every component on the market. It's just a shame SSDs are staying so high for so long. Are they milking it? Probably.

 

[Guest]

It's a well created sad movie - and it's point is true - survivability of a dropped SSD is heaps better than a HDD. However, a HDD can fail for other reasons which are not caused by the user (my Maxtor did a few years back).
SSD is not worthwhile for the $ right now.

 

[Noworldorder]

That was absurd; it had nothing to do with Intel, Hard drives, anything tech.

 

[Noworldorder]

"When I was an elephant" by Rubbish?
Rubbish is right! Glad I only scanned it.

 

[thrasher32]

That's why you get online backup for $50 a year in addition to your on-site backup.

The video is lame. You could just as easily trash an SSD by sitting/stepping on it or maybe it just inexplicably stops working.

I thought Intel was smarter than that. Wait, no I didn't.

 

[ntrceptr]

My opinion:
I'm still against and SSD unless I dont care for the data on them.
The companies build in slack space because they know cells will start to fail. I have a thoery that no site has tested yet, that an SSD that is nearly full will fail pretty quick if you re-write to the small amount of free space as it does not have enough room free to spread the re-writes around and will then use up all cells reserved for failures relativly quick. Cells in the latest SSDs are rated for around 3000 re-writes. Another thing everyone seems to forget is, that you must power them up every 6 months or they will forget everything on them.

 

[ram1009]

If this video is intended to create the desire for an Intel SSD you must wonder about the mental state of the folks at Intel.

 

[gm0n3y]

Sorry but $200 for 120GB SSD vs $70 for 2000GB HDD means that an SSD just isn't worth it for storage. Buy 2 2TB HDDs and have a redundant backup, for $60 savings and 1880GB more space.

 

[visionari1]

WOOOOW! Can't believe I wasted my time on this... wait, I can't believe Intel wasted time on this. Now I'm out 6+ minutes of REAL memories. And I thought these so-called "art" pieces were only at film festivals, now this so-called-art crap is everywhere, just shoot me now please. So what was the message again? Don't waste time or money on Apple products? I already knew that.

 

[Guest]

6 SSDs in our office - 2 of them completely tanked and incapable of recovery.
The IOPs are certainly fantstic, but for overall throughput, and reliability, I will stick with our local workstation R10 arrays for now - faster, more storage capacity, redundancy - all for less money.

 

[Guest]

With all the money Intel is making, they could've got a better agency doing the film, with better results. Shorter, more clever plot, more meaningful.
Yes, sometimes you can only recover a few files after a nasty HDD physical damage event. But that's not the case of the drive falling from your hand: either you can't recover the data in the plate's scratches (but you can access and read all the rest) or you just can't access the data at all'cause of damage to the read/write system. Want to promote Flash? Don't do it on the back of other technologies. That's a thumb rule for any product, adopted by people with integrity & high moral values.