Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal
by dillondf on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:49PM
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Basically only buy SSD brands who either are chip fabs or have a relationship with a single chip fab. So. Intel, Crucial, Samsung, maybe one or two others. And that's it. And frankly I have to say that only Intel and Crucial have been really proactive about engineered fixes for failure cases. Never buy SSDs from second-tier vendors such as Kingston who always use the cheapest third-party flash chips they can find. There are literally dozens of those sorts of vendors. Hundreds, even.
-Matt
Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal
by tracker1 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @10:29PM
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Not so sure about that, two out of the three SSDs I first used where Intel's second generation.. two of them went bad about a year in... I've used Corsair, Crucial and Samsung since... other than the two intels, out of about 12 drives since, I have only had one go bad (just about doa, died 2 hrs in).
It's pretty much conjecture... I will say that I was pretty disappointed in a lot of the seagate 7200 3tb drives I bought 3 years ago.. out of 12, 3 are now dead under moderate use... (I bought in different batches from different vendors for teh same model).
Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal
by gonzo on Sunday February 15, 2015 @04:05PM
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Micron is the name behind Crucial.
Kingston has gotten very good (and they used to suck) at least in the eMMC space (not quite a SSD, but close).
Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal
by kabdib on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:12AM
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Crucial are the drives I've been ripping out. Enterprise class. They just died after 2 years of service and not really all that much wear, won't talk to the outside world anymore.
I nailed one to the wall of our IT lab as a warning not to buy any more of them.
I buy for reliability. If I can plug something in and just forget about it (except for patches) for 3-4 years, we're done and whatever new thing I can buy will pay for itself in power savings.
I'm happy that an SSD will last that long, but it's not something I worry about.
I have had to rebuild servers because of abject SSD failure, and will no longer buy those brands. Failure seems to be quite highly correlated with trying to save a buck by getting non-top-tier drives (whereupon it's me, or someone like me, picking up the pieces when I could be writing code. Screw that).
If a drive was happily at 90% wear after two years, I'd just provision more of the same drive. Yay! :-)