Re:Have you ever had SSD failures in your PCs?
by bigiain on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:52PM
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I've had two SSDs fail in ~5 years.
One went into read only mode, and I could copy all the data to a replacement drive (I think - it's possible there's corruption in files I haven't noticed).
Recently one I bought in 2016 failed hard. Was working fine one day, next reboot the machine didn't even recognise it had the drive plugged in. (I also didn't lose any data, because I don't trust _any_ drives, and have multiple backups of it...)
The puts me at a 66% failure rate over ~5 years for SSDs in my personal machines. I don't recall a spinning rust drive failing in that time, and I have quite a lot more of those in service.
One went into read only mode, and I could copy all the data to a replacement drive (I think - it's possible there's corruption in files I haven't noticed).
Recently one I bought in 2016 failed hard. Was working fine one day, next reboot the machine didn't even recognise it had the drive plugged in. (I also didn't lose any data, because I don't trust _any_ drives, and have multiple backups of it...)
The puts me at a 66% failure rate over ~5 years for SSDs in my personal machines. I don't recall a spinning rust drive failing in that time, and I have quite a lot more of those in service.