SSD reliability? mind just died.............

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Dr. Righteous

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Well, my OCZ Arc100 just died this morning; my work system was a no boot.
I removed it to see if I could recover anything from it; but it wouldn't even recognize it.
It should be under warranty so I will see what I come with . Drive is less than 2 years old.

Anyone else got a SSD sob story?
 
Corsair P120 and a Corsair Neutron 240 still running well on my 2 rigs.

Sorry for your loss. I have 2 dead ones here from clients... they are both Crucial's that were out of warranty... Put them both in my external dock and wont even recognize in Win 7 nor Win 2k8 Server. They do show up in BIOS though.
 
did you get any sort of "warnings"? various different software disagrees about one of my SSD's... some seem to think it's going to die soon, others say it's 100% health... guess we'll see!
 
One of them seemed to be ok for a little while actually. Software(manu. tool) could read the drive info and said was ok but data wouldn't transfer and it got kinda hot. Then it just blanked out never to return.
 
I've still got a system running a Corsair X128 from like... 2009. Still works great!
 
Dr. Righteous said:
Well, my OCZ Arc100 just died this morning; my work system was a no boot.
I removed it to see if I could recover anything from it; but it wouldn't even recognize it.
It should be under warranty so I will see what I come with . Drive is less than 2 years old.

Anyone else got a SSD sob story?
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Uh oh, you said the unmagic word!

The only problem SSDs I have had were both OCz.
 
The only ssds I've ever had die were OCZs. This was years ago though, I haven't tried any of their newer models. Samsung, Crucial, Corsair, have been serving me well. Even have a few cheap Kingstons in a few htpcs going strong. Have some Plextors in some other people's rigs I built, those are going good too.
 
I bought a bunch of these over the years for myself and clients' machines and haven't had any fail yet.
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Had a Vertex 2 die, replaced under warranty, replacement started acting up.

Had one of my Intel 320 drives pull the 8MB error, but was able to recover the drive (though not the data), and it's still going strong; the other was updated successfully with no data loss.

Really sorry for your loss- it's hard all around, and now that SSD technology has largely matured (and OCZ is owned wholly by Toshiba), failures are actually pretty surprising regardless of brand!
 
admiralperpetual said:
did you get any sort of "warnings"? various different software disagrees about one of my SSD's... some seem to think it's going to die soon, others say it's 100% health... guess we'll see!
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Nope. System worked flawlessly the previous day, next morning wouldn't boot. System acted like the drive was wiped.
I pulled it out and stuck it in my windows system; it wouldn't even see it as a active device; pretty much dead.
It is still under warranty and just did the support request with Toshiba. Hopefully will get a replacement.
 
That's how my Vertex 2 acted, except that it had an LED that changed color to indicate 'something wrong'. Very frustrating.
 
I've had a few fail over the years. OCZ Vertex, OCZ Agility 2, Samsung 850 EVO, Adata something, and Sandisk Plus something. Most were in basic business desktops but one had a PFsense firewall installed. I buy whatever is cheapest with the longest warranty. The failure rate compared to HDDs is noticeably better. Out of the ~250 machines I support on a regular basis, in IT and moonlighting, I've had the five SSDs fail *knocks on wood* since deploying them in numbers.

Just yesterday I had a Xeon E5-2667 V4 processor fail in a server. That's a $2000 processor that's less than 6 months old. Everything fails and you better be prepared for it.

Edit: Was the original Vertex and not Vertex 2.
 
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Been really happy with the 3 Crucials I've had, but anything can fail. I've had more issues with mobos biting the big one than any other component.
 
SSDs seam to be more reliable than HDDs, but they do go down. In my personal use, out of a dozen or so, I've only had one die.

I thought I had another that was going out, but that turned out to be the SATA cable.
 
Domingo said:
Been really happy with the 3 Crucials I've had, but anything can fail. I've had more issues with mobos biting the big one than any other component.
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I've never had a mobo die on me in the 22 years I have been building my own machines.
Hard drives have had the most failures, had 1 Antec PSU start to squeal and Antec replaced it for me, had 1 eVGA GTX260 GPU artifact and lock up in 1 game on 1 map, CounterStrike Source on a Mario Gun Game map, did the Step Up to a GTX285.
Had 1 LG 19" LCD fail, oh and plenty of Logitech mice having the double left click issue and Logitech always replaced them.
 
Zepher said:
I've never had a mobo die on me in the 22 years I have been building my own machines.
Hard drives have had the most failures, had 1 Antec PSU start to squeal and Antec replaced it for me, had 1 eVGA GTX260 GPU artifact and lock up in 1 game on 1 map, CounterStrike Source on a Mario Gun Game map, did the Step Up to a GTX285.
Had 1 LG 19" LCD fail, oh and plenty of Logitech mice having the double left click issue and Logitech always replaced them.
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The vast majority of mine were when I was working IT in a bank back in the late 90's. We had a contract with Compaq. Out of the 250'ish machines in our line-up, it felt like a mobo went bad every 3-4 weeks. I'm exaggerating, but it WAS pretty often. At first I figured there had to be other faults, but every time Compaq would send us a new mobo and things would work again just fine.
We also went through a quite a few Maxtor and Seagate drives, but those were more like a drive every 4-5 months.
With home builds, I did lose a mobo to electrical discharge a few years ago. It's really dry where I live and I didn't touch something metal before hitting the power.
 
all 3 of my ssds going strong my corsair force gt 120 has 94% life left with 53tb read 29tb write i got it back in 2011. A friend used to work at a pc shop he said ocz and sandisk had the highest fail rate of any ssds they carried.
 
I've never had a mobo die on me in the 22 years I have been building my own machines.
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At work we have had a few failures but those were over a decade ago mostly with VIA chipset AMD boards. The main issue with those were the little chipset fan failed causing the chipset to overheat.

In the nearly 20 years I have been in charge of the network at work (small department of 20 users - 50 or so PCs) our biggest failure item by far was the 75+ hard drive RMAs. These were dominated by Seagate 7200.x failures unrelated to the firmware bricking bug (never experienced that).
 
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I had one die recently. It can't be detected anymore. I wonder what really happens to cause that.
 
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