My first SSD, a 60Gb OCZ Vertex II ceased to be last week. I didn’t take “no moving parts” to mean “no pulse”. This wasn’t the vague threat of “SSD wearing” – but simple undetectable dead drive.
Luckily, I sync most of my data to the cloud, so the interruption was inconvenient, but not catastrophic.
SSD’s – great new tools, but they still fail. I mustn’t get complacent.
Unfortunately everything on my desktop was gone. The most commonly used “workspace” – but it doesn’t sync readily to the cloud. There goes quite a few hours work. I’ve since made a simple script to copy the desktop to the cloud folder each night – at least that will reduce the future impact to just a day’s work.
It did certainly get me to thinking though. A free consumer cloud service just saved my bacon (as I always hoped it would). How many of my customers are using this? It complies with no corporate standard, but offers so much value. And I have nothing that can compare or compete. Sure, I could buy some products, and run my own PC backup service. I doubt it would compare for features or functionality.
So, again we have the balance between great user experience, and poor corporate compliance.
I firmly believe the user experience wins in the long run. This has been proven time and again. PC’s proved it over IBM. Windows over Novell. Apple is busy proving it again.
So how is an IT team to meet yesterdays compliance requirements in tomorrows user driven world?