SSDs reliable yet?

Fogold said:
Also 15 years of mechanical drives and NEVER been caught out by a drive failure. There was always at least a warning and chance to recover data. ALWAYS back up of course!

Just my opinion.
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You have never been caught out by a mechanical drive failure in 15 years :eek:

Having worked in computing for 10+ years mechanical drives failing are the norm, hell you even pretty much plan for failures with RAID commonly focusing more on reliability rather than performance, yes sometimes you will get signs like some bad sectors but often a disk will just go.

As said - backup is the way to go - but having used SSD's for a few years I will never build a desktop/laptop without an SSD for the OS.
 
I use 3 ssd's but the Kingston is a replacement after my first ssd an early Kingston died after I messed it up.
My Sandisk Extreme and M4 run brilliantly.
I would not hesitate to say 'buy one' (perhaps I personally would not get an OCZ though) and back up which has been said above.
 
I own 7 SSDs in spread across 5 systems, oldest one being about 2-3 years old and haven't had any fail. Mind you I've never had a HDD fail on me either and I've probably owned 20-something of those over the years.

As mentioned by everyone else. Backup your stuff. Any drive can fail, and HDDs can go without warning just as much as SSDs.

Lastly, given the spec in your signature - I personally think it's daft to cripple that rig with a HDD. Grab one, you'll be glad you did :)
 
I'm on my first ever SSD and I'm very impressed ... Silent and very fast more than happy with the M4 version I have, glad I went for the 256 version rather than the 128.

As for backups I have a Cisco media hub with twin 2 TB drives set as a raid 1 so if one dies I can just pull it out and drop a new one in it's not the fastest setup but has work without fault for over 4 years now.
 
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240GB Sandisk extreme SSD as the main drive, 500Gb RE2 and 1TB Black as HDD backup and storage drives. Absolutely no problems with nearly a year in operation. I have also had an OCZ vertex 2 and a Kingston at various times. Never had a failure.

I have an IBM 120GB SSD in my netbook which I do not back up but is currently very reliable.

Overall I like SSD and believe that they are as reliable as mech drives nowadays. I have been using computers since 1990 and seen some data disasters with mech drives failing between three and ten years old. I do not have this length of experience with SSD obviously but so far I have not had a single failure let alone data loss.
 
Had a vertex 2e die a few weeks ago, luckily there wasnt an awful lot of stuff on it. Just windows and a few origin games that had been backed up to an internal mechanical drive and an external hdd. Definitely hasnt in anyway put me off using an ssd, if anything running on a mechanical drive as a temporary measure has highlighted the vast difference in performance that an ssd offers. Hence once funds permit, ill be going back to a larger capacity ssd as a primary drive.
 
Mine was 15 months old, nephew has had 2x vertex 2e's go pop. One after 11 months, the other after 6 months. The ocz's do seem to have a higher failure rate. Particularly the sandforce controller models.
 
The OCZ Vector drives are a brand new controller and are getting very good reviews around the web. So maybe previous OCZ drives have had issues in the past but maybe a bit harsh to judge the Vector drives just yet.
 
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