points by ankurdhama 1 day ago | 0 comments
Sure, but in this case your cpu dies or ram dies or ssd dies, in all cases you loose data, in an upgradable system you loose data when ssd dies. Different risk factors.
[–] dahcryn 1 day ago
[–] fizzynut 1 day ago
It's the same "risk" but a completely different probability for anyone technical because any minor failure is now a critical failure.
I wouldn't choose to buy a car I use every day that's 100x less reliable than a normal car.
[–] katbyte 1 day ago
Hard drives failing is a far more common problem in my experience. As is theft and loss - one should always treat a laptop as if it will fail at any moment and keep good backups.
If your looking for arguments against soldered storage the facts ssds are wear items and will eventually need replacement is a much better one.
[–] fizzynut 1 day ago
If almost ANY failure means the laptop is basically bricked then even with good backups it means days or weeks before being back up to speed, having a working laptop with recovered data, esp. when working on highly confidential data as agreements can mean you cannot upload the data to a cloud.
If given a choice, I prefer a system where a HDD/RAM/GPU/CPU/PSU/Screen/Port/Battery/Keyboard failure is barely if at all disruptive to one where all of these effectively brick the system.
[–] hulitu 18 hours ago
> A machine should be treated as a whole.
... single point of failure. /s
[–] katbyte 1 day ago
SSDs are a more common failure point, as is theft or loss or damage.
The point is it shouldn’t matter if the cpu or ssd dies because you have backed up everything already and are prepared for anything to fail or happen to the device rather then “oh the ssd is removable so in these select few situations I can recover my data”
My macbook updates my documents etc to my NAS, and the NAS syncs to crucial folders to the cloud (not everything for cost reasons)
You should always assume your device can be stolen, you can spill fluids on it (or a guest), a cat can pee on it, an electric shock may kill it... No matter how great care you take of it, shit happens, data needs to be safe.
The SSD dying standalone vs the system dying doesn't change at all for data security. It's not a different risk factor