Most Reliable SSD? - June 2011

gatekiller

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I'm seriously considering buying an SSD for my laptop to replace it's 60GB 5400RPM Toshiba.

I want to buy the most reliable drive but I've heard that SSD's rarely last more than a year. Some actual figures were given in a blog posts:

  • Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days
  • OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days
  • G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days
  • G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days
  • Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days
  • OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days
  • Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days
  • Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days

Are these typical lifespans or serious bad luck?

I've currently got my eye on the Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB for £92 and would want it to last atleast 2-3 years because I cannot afford to replace an SSD every 12 months.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Stephen
 
The OCZ drives have a 3year warranty (and I suspect others do too), so you wouldn't have to buy a new one, and secondly I doubt the companies would offer 3 years if there was a high failure rate within this time.
 
Richard_16v said:
The OCZ drives have a 3year warranty (and I suspect others do too), so you wouldn't have to buy a new one, and secondly I doubt the companies would offer 3 years if there was a high failure rate within this time.
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I would be interested to know if anyone on here has had their SSD fail within the warranty period and how they found getting a replacement from the manufacturer?
 
All rumours, I've had my intel 160GB X25-M for a couple of years with no problems. Intel have the best reliability. OCZ and Corsair are currently doing very badly due to bad firmware from Sandforce.

In IT terms most stuff will fail very quickly (first few weeks) or fail after several years. Everyone talks about SSD's wearing out but in very hard use you'll still get 5-6 years and likely 10+ years. The drives are then still readable just going read only rather than failing completely.
 
Warrantys are not really needed, most stuff is covered under the Consumer act anyway. If you pay for something, you expect to get a good few years out of it at least. If you feel you got a bum deal on something, (didnt last as long as you expected), then complain, they WILL replace it or give you a refund if you get on there case and bitch at them. ;)
 
iv had my ssd on 24/7 for well over a year now. I know a few people with them and have never heard of a fail.

those fail times seem awfully short to me
 
I've just had my 11 month Corsair F60 die on me, when i get my rma replacement i'm just going to sell it & keep using my raptor.
 
Had freezing problems on c300 but all good now i finally fixed with intel drivers, i heard c300 on paper should last longer than m4, but they come with 3 years warranty (5 years some places) and you can probably get extended.
After 5 years hardware often is outdated or need replacing anyway.
 
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gatekiller said:
  • Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days
  • Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days
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These have been superceded by the 320 series and Intel recently increased the warranty period to five years on those :) That's quite good I think, and Intel have a strong reputation for reliability and good warranty support, so I would go for a 320 series if you're worried about this.
 
I don't mean to hijack this thread but any experience with putting two 510's or two 320's in Raid-0 using native mobo controller? worth the speedup? most importantly what about reliability... I'm particularly interested in putting 2 250GB 510's in raid-0, assuming 2-3 partition setup
 
I still have a crucial M225 120gb running fine on my laptop and a crucial C300 64gb on my desktop. I think you should be fine for about 3 years unless you do loads of writes on the SSD. Like most SSD that you MLC you can do as many read as possible, but writes will eventually cause memory to fail, bit like a usb drive you can write to it say 1000 times before it fails.

If you like me and use only for reading off the SSD then you should be fine. My desktop has 64gb SSD with two 2tb drives. So I install the OS on the SSD and all my data files on the HDD. I have ghosted my OS on the HDD. That way if the SSD fails I only need to reghost another one for my system to be back up and running and all my data files are safe on my HDD. I also have an external drive to backup my HDD in case they fail.
 
The Intels are the most reliable SSDs. There was an article about return rates doing the rounds and Intel was the leader by quite a margin.
 
I had a 510 go after about a month, replaced in 3 days (cheers OcUK) and all seems well and good.

That said i've changed my setup so I can replace my SSD a lot quicker now.
 
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