What is the most trusted SSD?

[Ady2009]

It was time to upgrade my PC and after doing lots of reading I opted for a 1TB Crucial MX500. I thought I had made a good choice but after just 5 mins it failed! I was in the middle of doing a fresh installation of windows when I got errors appearing and when I checked in BIOS the drive had completely gone. After a couple of reboots the drive came back but when I ran crystal disk info on it, it has got a few uncorrectable errors and even a quick format failed to complete. This thing had got a 5-year warranty but didn't even manage to last 5 mins! Original HDD has been refitted and all is well again but I really do need to upgrade.

I thought Cruical was a good brand but it seems that there are lot of complaints about them now. I looked at the Samsung QVO but it seems that they are very slow and have failures as well. Any recommendations?

I am seriously thinking about sticking with mechanical HDD's for the main storage and just using a small SSD for the OS. I am loosing faith in SSD's considering I have still got HDD's from 2009 that have been used everyday and still do not have a single error on them! An old HDD had lasted 15+ years while a Crucial SSD could not even manage to last 5 mins!

 

[Ady2009]

Thanks all for your advice. Everyone seems to agree that SSD drives are risky and it is just a matter of trying to reduce the risk. What I have eventually opted for is to use two 500Gb SSD's instead of a single 1Tb drive. It did work out the same in terms of price but has the benefit of halving the risk. The idea is to but the OS on one drive and game files on the other. I could even set up an daily back-up of the non-replaceable files from the main OS drive to the game drive. It seems to be the most sensible solution.

 

[Ady2009]

Thanks all for your feedback. I did also note that the warranty on a 500Gb Samsung SSD is only 300 TBW while it is 600 TBW for a 1TB so I swapped the two 500 Gb's for a 1TB Samsung EVO. Fitted it last night and the installation was fine with this drive. There are no reported errors in crystal disk info either. I know I probably fell unlucky with the bad Cruicial drive but I will stick with Samsung from now on.

As an interesting side note, I have always had a good experience with HDD's with the exception of a bad batch in about 2013 when the HDD factories were destroyed in Thailand and so they had to switch production - if anyone remembers that? I even have a Seagate laptop drive with close to 40k hours on it! I had to swap it out for another not because there was anything wrong with it but I felt like I was really pushing my luck. When I plug it back in now, it still reports zero problems though!

 

[Ady2009]

Yes, I understand they all have their issues. In another PC I have a cheap Kingston that gets really bad reviews for regular failure but that thing has not given me any trouble since I bought it.