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9 month sandforce report

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glen

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First drive is a 60gb Vertex 2 with the original 3x nm memory bought in Oct 2010. Setup to never sleep or hibernate. No Hiberfil. Just Win7x64 + Office 2007. All other programs on HDD. Great performance still showing 265 write speeds with Atto. Basically no issues.

Second drive was 50GB Agility 2 bought 3 months ago, this was put on my kids computer with hibernation/sleep. Lasted 2.5 months till it was no longer recognized by Bios. I assume it has the 22nm ram. There are rampant reports of these SSD's turning to bricks in the last month. I put my kid back on a enterprise WD HDD, silly mistake to use an SSD for that build I think. If I RMA I really have no use for it, $100 down the toilet.

So my concern: am I living on borrowed time with the 3x nm SF-1200?, this is my main rig and I back up/image but the hassel of setting everything back up and the down time should this drive die is concerning.

I should have bought an Intel X25 last year, I know this now, but they seem to be unavailable in this price range today.

Should I try an Intel 320? The 25nm ram still scares me. What about a Crucial C300? these are still available.

For me the performance/speed is so much better than a HDD with any SSD that I guess I am more concerned about reliability. i.e. avoiding a surprise brick.

What about waiting till I upgrade to IB-1155 next year and keeping my fingers crossed that this SF-1200 34 nm SSD will hold up? Maybe then the Intel 320 series will have a proven track record.

Frustrating situation just looking for some shoot from the hip brainstorming.
 
My Vertex2 EX60 has been going strong for just over a year. I have done extensive work to minimize writes to the drive, including modifying IE, Firefox, and Windows to the point I couldn't possibly remember everything.

I just posted a screen in another thread showing AS-SSD performance. It actually is getting better numbers than when I first benched it. It's at just over half capacity since I use my V.raptor for my page file and most apps. Only games like STALKER or Gothic3/Risen go on the SSD, due to the frequent load in those open games have.

I fully trust the drive, even so, I make image back ups every once in a while with Win7's built in Acronis feature. Never had to use one though.
 
vick1000 said:
My Vertex2 EX60 has been going strong for just over a year. I have done extensive work to minimize writes to the drive, including modifying IE, Firefox, and Windows to the point I couldn't possibly remember everything.

I just posted a screen in another thread showing AS-SSD performance. It actually is getting better numbers than when I first benched it. It's at just over half capacity since I use my V.raptor for my page file and most apps. Only games like STALKER or Gothic3/Risen go on the SSD, due to the frequent load in those open games have.

I fully trust the drive, even so, I make image back ups every once in a while with Win7's built in Acronis feature. Never had to use one though.
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Yea I'm doing as much to keep writes off the SSD, moved the virtual memory, but I did leave the IE cache one the SSD. The kid's Agility 2 dying and all the reports over at the support forum sort of freaked me out, can't help but think these failures are somehow related to the poor controller/firmware implementation when the memory was abruptly switched to 25nm.

I think best to wait to see what pans out next year when I'll be upgrading to IB anyway. Hopefully this thing will hold out, I've got 25 Gb's free space, really don't use it a lot, so might as well stick with it.
 
Spent some time on the OZC support forum, a lot of drives going blank to bios with no real solution, bricks. Even folks who are not using sleep/hiberfil, bit of a scary situation.

I remember buying this as my first SSD thinking they had been out a few years not wanting to be an early adopter. But I shot myself in the foot because really the SF-1200 controller is a first, so I was an early adopter who bought 2 of the things. Hope I can get some money back on the kids Agility2 and put it toward a more mature tech SSD for my main rig, just no longer comfortable with this Vertex 2 (even though it is 34nm.)

Something erecently has started killing these drives, everything from Sandy Bridge mother board stability, to C-states, to poor programmed bios is being blamed but no sign of a firmware upgrade for SF-1200 which would make it robust to various motherboards.
 
So I have in the neighborhood of 10 Intel SSDs, 10 Sandforce SF-1200 SSDs, and probably a dozen or so other controllers.

First off... I highly doubt the Agility 2 had enough writes in 2.5 months to even make a dent in 25nm NAND's durability. Frankly, doing no optimizations at this point is probably OK if you look at real-world write usage.

On the bricking... it happens. Intel drives turn into 8MB drives, I've seen bricked Indilinx (many firmware revs ago), and SandForce Drives. C300's did odd things with old firmware.

Bottom line, like any disk you just need backups and it is not a huge issue.
 
My VERTEX 2 has been going strong since for almost a year now, got it last august for my bday and its been my os drive since day one. my Hd capture card has a disk speed check software which reads/writes from 1-5gb files to check a drives performance for handling HD capture from which shows you what fps at was res the drives can handle ect.

my 60GB is showing 265MB reads 260MB writes

when the 60GB gets more full with only around 10gb left the 5GB write drops to around 245MB/s
 
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