are ssd reliable ?

TALON1973

TALON1973

TALON1973

Soldato
Joined
28 Jul 2004
Posts
5,012
Location
llanelli , south wales
ive ben considering ssd a while now , but i'm worried about the failure rates of these things :eek:

are they worth the risk ?

and i need a good one at 256gb
 
TALON1973 said:
ive ben considering ssd a while now , but i'm worried about the failure rates of these things :eek:

are they worth the risk ?

and i need a good one at 256gb
Click to expand...

They are no different from any normal HD. Backup properly theres no problem.

Like any data - don't backup you will be sorry.
 
2 and a half year old crucial c300 256gb has given me exactly zero problems :D (very reliable components).

As such I recommend the crucial M4 on the back of being a very trusted brand. Samsung 830 or 840 pro are both good alternatives too
 
There probably not much difference than normal drives in terms of failer rate.

When a SSD fails it's not unusual to have no warning, no access to data.
When a mechanical starts to fail you might get more of an inclination that it's about to die (though they can still fail with no warning).

Just backup any irreplaceable data, whatever drives you have.
 
I have had two Kingston drives and a Crucial M4. Still got one of each and never had an issue.

Crucial M4's seems to be the most dependable so that is what I recommend.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I don't think I came across any topic which was regarding dead SSD yet...
Click to expand...

Not been looking hard enough, a few generations of SSDs have had data loss issues or compete dead drives (tended to be early OCZ drives).

A few have had firmware bugs but overall the intel x25-m/320 series has been solid and a few others have had no reported issues. (M4 had this 5xxx hours BSOD issue)

More reliable than HDDs as long as the design and firmware is solid.
 
I remember that Linus chap on the youtube mentioning in one video about his home server that they've had far, far fewer SSDs returned over the last year than HDDs. (Not in total, as a percentage of those sold). So I'd say they're reliable enough now. :)
 
Great when they are working but when they fail kiss goodbye to your data. They don't do a dying swan like mechanical hds do. Its all over very very quickly.
 
Tbh, it's so easy to back data up or use Skydrive for important documents. Everyone should have backups!
 
Dont they have a limited amount of writes before they start to become unreliable. The only reason I am aware of this is I defragged my SSD a few times before reading you dont/should not defrag an SSD
 
Xtremesystems members put a fair number of recent gen drives to the test with continous writes using Anvil's storage utilities and found the write cycle limit to not be an issue. Whatever wear leveling and nand process improvements had been implemented took them well beyond the nand's spec numbers on their own.




edited for a double negative that said the opposite to what was intended.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom