Spec Me An Utterly Reliable 512GB SSD

[Rroff]

Just make that there's nothing crucial on that drive. It's almost 3 years ago when my Samsung 840 EVO died without any hints of giving up on life. The machine was normally on 24/7 and one morning it decided to simply give up on me, not even giving me a chance to retrieve any data.

I'll probably lose some odd bits and pieces if it goes suddenly but I keep multiple backups of my data and one of my laptops is pretty much a mirror of the environment of the machine the 840 Evo is in.

 

[CapitalOne]

re Samsungs

I currently have

970 pro
980 pro
4 850 evo
4 860 evo

All flawless over various lifetimes (I guess some are 5 years or so old).

I have a couple of cheapo crucials which have been reliable too.

Sandisk I’ve had multiple failures.

All the others (corsairs, oczs) were so long ago I cannot remember!

 

[adidan]

I have about half a dozen MX500s all still going strong. Only Samsung and a Corsair nvme have failed on me.

Come to think of it my Crucial M225 that's over ten years old still works.

 

[j4ska]

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With the Crucial MX500 you never really know what drive you will have because they have done so many silent revisions over the years instead of releasing new models.

Ohh maybe that's why mine is good as I have it for years.

 

[Philtor]

Intel were always considered the most reliable if I remember.

I would definitely have a look at their range but that said, it’s unlikely your neighbour will be hammering it with writes!