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SSD Lifespan & Reliability

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WojtekGee

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I've been lurking around on these boards for a while, and others as well - What I've seen is a trend with people having issues with SSDs.

I've used and owned computers for probably around 20 years now, and I've never had a HDD failure in any sense, worse was probably a bad sector back on my 286 sx.

I've been pretty hesitant buying these things, I know the data throughput is way faster than any HDD, but I'm hesitant to even use a ssd as a boot drive.

Any thoughts?
 
Buy a reliable brand, corsair, samsung, or intel. I have been using Adata for the past two years and I haven't had any issues. You will be amazed by the difference!
 
and I've never had a HDD failure in any sense
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You are very likely. The expectation is that each year of a drive's life > 1% of drives will die.

Buy a reliable brand, corsair, samsung, or intel.
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Even with these there is a chance of failure. Intel failure rates have been quoted to less than 1% annually which is less than hard drives. However there are brands to avoid. One such brand is OCZ. They have had a bad record of reliability and also a bad RMA department along with that.
 
Two ssd's, no problems.
At this point I think it is just left over fear mongering from the technologies teething stages.
Search around for some customer feedback from people who have/do actually own the drive in question.
That's one problem with reviews is they can never show longer term reliability other than speculation.
In theory they should be more reliable than mechanical drives. Most models haven't been around long enough to test that though.
 
Out with the old in with the new I guess...

Whats scariest is the threads / posts / feedbacks where the SSD just stops working, period.

At least with a HDD you have to fuck it pretty hard mechanically, it seems SSDs software or controllers (i have no idea what im talking about) go and then you're limbo.
 
I believe most SSD deaths are caused by faulty firmware or a faulty SSD controller. As for hard drives at work I RMA 10 to 20 drives every year. Most of these I am able to recover data from before they totally die although in most cases I do not need to since the drives are part of a raid and I have 2 or more backups on tape.
 
In windows I use the integrated backup to make a system backup to a disk based network share. This is no different then when I had spinners as the OS drive..
 
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