On 02/12/2017 02:40 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > So does anyone have any evidence of a current generation SSD lasting > more than 20 days? >
I have tried various SSDs (multiple brands and generations) over the last maybe five years and found that they're very unreliable (multiple brands too.) I know everyone's saying these things are reliable but out of four SSDs I own, I've had to replace three, some more than once. I just don't use them for anything I want to stay working. Right now I keep them in my mythtv frontends as I can restore the OS easily. One one of them the company involved (Kingston) even sent me a newer drive/model as it was replaced more than once. I know they're fast. But what's the point of going 500 MPH and crashing into a mountain with no chance of repair/recovery. I went back to a (relatively) slower rust raid10, and it's been reliable for the last four years. At least with a hard drive failure, you stand /some/ chance at recovery, not zero. The one SSD that hasn't had to have been replaced under warranty is in my laptop which I generally use maybe a dozen times a year. I fully expect it to die one of these times when I boot the laptop (it's one of the old models.) My experiences are with Samsung, Kingston, Intel, Crucial and AData SSDs. The last one I bought because these things I view as throwaway devices (the warranty expired on the original Crucial) and don't want to spend big money on them. I have noticed the AData SSD's performance is not as fast now as it was new (maybe 1.5 years ago?) So it'll probably pack it in soon too. Dan
