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SSD Life
jnelson3149
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in General
It's been 2 or 3 years since SSD drives became popular for VPS providers. I am curious to find out the failure rates. There were dire predictions a few years ago that they would turn themselves into ROMS in 6 months. Also any brands that have worked well? Any brands to stay away from? Any configurations that lengthened or shortened life (Raid 0, 1, 10 etc)
This is my first post here, I have learned a lot of knowledge by reading this forum.
Jim
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well i just bought a samsung 840 pro 256gb for my pc, so I hope this is not the case
I expect @Francisco knows something about this with all the SSDs he must be running at BuyVM.
Intels are highly reliable
We have tons of thousands of Intel 520/530 series ssd deployed and we experience a very, very low failure rate.
More than 100 "consumer grade" SSD (Intel 320 and Samsung 840 EVO) and only 2 failures so far. Both due to the well-known Intel 320 firmware bug that has been already solved with a firmware upgrade. Intel exchanged the drives for free, next-day delivery, no question asked. I don't even consider to use a mechanical drive on a desktop/notebook PC anymore.
No failure at all on the few enterprise SSDs we use.