Ssd Drive Failures...

[bobl]

Early adopter of SSD drives saying "they fail, but that's okay". Is it just me that thinks this guy is batshit crazy?

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

[CrazyKid]

I bought 4 Intell brand SSD hard drives when they first came out and still using all without problems. I did ruin 1 of them myself by doing a software update the wrong way. I called Intell and they sent me a new one free, no questions asked. I have many friends using different brands and none have reported problems that they did not cause (like I did). Some brands SSD's are/were not plug and play. Side note I fried a QX9650 doing overclocking and Intell sent me a new one of those at no cost too.

[negreanu]

Never had a failure yet on a sad drive since intel G1 2.5" 80GB first came out.

Way more reliable than mechanical disks.

[craigt3365]

My techie friend says due to the way they work, they will fail quicker than normal drives. Especially if you write to them a lot. He says to only use it for the OS and keep writes to a minimum anyway you can.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4604/the-sandforce-roundup-corsair-patriot-ocz-owc-memoright-ssds-compared

[negreanu]

Would not worry about that.

That is old school SSD thinking they have come a long way since the initial release.

Sandforce based SSD's will certainly last long enough.

By the time they have failed you will have upgraded to a much bigger/faster one anyway. A mechanical drive has a much higher chance of failure than a SSD.

Take OWC drives they come with a 5 year warranty. So at least you know you have peace and mind for 5 years!

Anyway anyone sensible whether SSD/Mechanical will have a backup so failure is not that catastrophic anymore.

Take for example Apple, their new macbook Pro Retina and macbook Air only come with SSD's therefore the lifespan must be sufficient to enough for them to release in a upto $3500+ computer.

[Tywais]

I've been running an OCZ Vertex 3 for about two years and it is screaming FAST with 525 MB/s speeds, pretty much saturating SATA III bus. I only have the OS and all my applications on it. If I do large file video editing, I will copy it to the SSD to work with it. I also disable swap/page files on the drive and have those on a hard drive. I also disable file indexing as it is not necessary for a fast SSD and reduces writes. My Documents folder is on a hard disk also as those are regularly written to. I do image backups with Acronis True Image Home but probably do it more often than I would with a hard disk due to early adopter problems as mentioned in the article. Oh, my big games go on the SSD.