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