Reliability of SSD's

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I've heard people picking the Intel drives over the Vertex 3's due to reliability.

With regards to SSD's, are these reliability concerns due to other drives being DOA, or failing after time?
 
My vertex2 went the other day. Only 6 months use. Hope I was just unlucky. If it's replacement doesn't last longer I may go back to trusty old school 7200
 
kidloco said:
My vertex2 went the other day. Only 6 months use. Hope I was just unlucky. If it's replacement doesn't last longer I may go back to trusty old school 7200
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I have had plenty of 'trusty old school 7200' die on me. Infact I have lost count. No issues so far with my Intel SSD's.
 
What actually dies in them though? You should check, because the hardware used in one range of SSDs seems to vary greatly to the next, different NAND, different controller/chipset, etc., that it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to compare them based on name similarity alone.
 
2 years ago my first SSD, an OCZ Vertex 1 60 GB, arrived DOA. I RMAd it and the replacement has been working fine ever since. Just got a Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 240 GB a couple of months ago, so far so good.
 
First SSD I bought this week was a OCZ Vertex 2 and it looks like it is DOA, BIOS will not recognise the drive.

But this will not stop me getting a replacement, just look at the amount of mechanical harddrives that fail, there are also a lot.

I will however do regular backups as I do now as well.
 
My ocz vertex 1 bought April 2010 has just stopped working completely (almost 1 year exactly). Stopped getting detected, now i have to go through rma :(. Wonder what is actually wrong with it, the data is probably still on there maybe it is like a battery issue or something? Is there a way to just reset the drive or something?
 
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My ocz vertex 1 bought April 2010 has just stopped working completely (almost 1 year exactly). Stopped getting detected, now i have to go through rma :(. Hopefully they don't send the same defective batch out as a replacement. Wonder what is actually wrong with it, the data is probably still on there maybe it is like a battery issue or something? Is there a way to just reset the drive or something?
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ssds dont use batteries

the closest thing to a reset would be a full format
 
I had a 64gb vertex 2 in my work PC, and it packed in after 2 weeks use (PC went to sleep, and hard drive never woke up! I now know that you should disable this feature).
 
Otaku Punk said:
This adds a worrying perspective to the issue, typically just as I was about to buy a vertex 3!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html

Is this guy just REALLY unlucky, or are SSDs really only lasting about a year?
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I have 7 SSD's in various comps around the house (40,80,80,160 GB Intel G2's, 30,60GB OCZ Agility, Solid2 (Both Indilinx), 90GB OCZ Vertex2.

No Hardware failures so far, most drives are well over a year old, some almost two years.
I have had a couple of corruption/partition table issues, but I suspect that this was my own fault (one happened during a firmware upgrade, other was probably due to a video driver BSOD whilst using FancyCache. All data was recovered in both cases. I've got Acronis running nightly backups to my NAS now.
 
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I've not head that you should disable sleep on SSDs, is this right?
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Sending a drive to sleep when the machine is idle, can prevent the drive from performing the background TRIM / GC activity it needs to periodically do, which can then lead to a backlog building up.

Then when it finally says enough is enough and it has to do it right now, it can create freezing or performance issues when you don't really want them to be occurring (or understand why and blame it on a bad drive).

Very much defeats the point of having an SSD and they're not power hogs anyway.
 
topdog@OC said:
Sending a drive to sleep when the machine is idle, can prevent the drive from performing the background TRIM / GC activity it needs to periodically do, which can then lead to a backlog building up.

Then when it finally says enough is enough and it has to do it right now, it can create freezing or performance issues when you don't really want them to be occurring (or understand why and blame it on a bad drive).

Very much defeats the point of having an SSD and they're not power hogs anyway.
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So when I would usually leave my machine to go into a sleep state, with an SSD I should switch the machine off or leave it on? Surely powering the machine off would also prevent TRIM running? As for leaving it on, I'm not too worried about the power draw of an SSD but motherboard+CPU+GPU+RAM at idle must be more than just the RAM (all thats left on during S3 sleep, to my understanding)?

I suppose I should get into a habit of switching it off when my machine is not being used for 30+ mins, rather than being lazy and leaving it to go to sleep!

Sorry if I've made a mistake, SSD's are an area I'm fairly new to compared to other components. I've built quite a few machines, but this is my first foray into SSDs!
 
In your power management options you can set the SSD to not sleep but still let your other components power down.
 
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