I have 4 SSDs, 2 x 128 GB OCZ and 2 x 16GB Samsung

I get lots of problems with FreeBSD 7.2 on one OCZ (random drive crashes but easy to fix with fsck) but the other OCZ works fine on Ubuntu 8.04

One of the 16GB SSDs lost a partition a while back when running Fedora 9 needing a complete re-install.

In summary: SSDs are not particularly reliable.

I think this just another pathetic whine from companies who just cant live the 21st century. They are crying to the Government to bail them out of their own incompetence and lack of vision.

Sites like Google News, Reddit and Digg dont take anything away from these news papers, they send them traffic and if they can make any money from that traffic, thats their own stupid fault !

Sooner or later, someone will find a way to pay journalists directly for their efforts without the need for a newspaper. When that happens, the newspapers will be totally redundant and totally dead !

Im sure GrokLaw covered this a year or two ago. Perhaps RedHat should go and trawl through their archives. I'm sure the original XT-PC had multiple text screens built into the video BIOS and that was 1981 ish

This must be any vendors wet-dream :-

1. Make it free or low cost to get all your customers to use it.
2. When they are totally dependent on you, force them to upgrade to your new, improved, very expensive service or lose their data !
3. Profit big time !!

Call me paranoid if you wish, but I would feel very uneasy to have my data hosted 6,000 miles away by a greedy, convicted monopolist with a dubious security record.

You also need a long chain of complex, fragile technology to be able to access your data. What happens if any company in that chain goes bankrupt ?

I think I will keep my data on my machines.