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"There are two kinds of people: those of have lost data and those who are about to lose data."
Redundancy saves a lot of headaches.
I'm always for supporting new technologies, new companies, new ideas, but that does not mean I'm dropping everything to just get that brand new shiny stuff.
I see the concept and technology for SSDs as groubdbreaking and pretty awsome but I don't trust those drives to store data I don't want to lose. I still use good old fashioned HDDs: the tech is tried and tested, mature and reliable and very affordable.
I still use SSDs but I use them as not safe storage mediums, prone to break at any moment, without any warning.
And regardless of this I still keep several copies of important files and critical ones, if possible, are made physical.
And even then...
Read the opening sentence again.