Running a PNY 120Gb as the boot drive, not a single problem on it so far (Still running the backups weekly mind :P )
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Running a PNY 120Gb as the boot drive, not a single problem on it so far (Still running the backups weekly mind :P )
My Crucial M4 of just 12 1/2 months is now dead, (my previous post says it was 18 months but after looking & setting a rma claim its just over 12 months) Did all the power cycles etc but to no avail. So would be interesting for a new poll as we have had these for a longer period and see just how long these will last. i.e under a year, 2 years, 3 years, still going. My old ide drives and sata drives still work as I use them to back my photo's from time to time.
I've bought mostly OCZ & all of them have been fine, even after I've sold them off & as far as I know they are still going !
I'm happy to see SSD are reliable now. What about a Plextor M5 Pro? Is it reliable? I'll receive it soon..
Oh the irony.
My new SSD (Corsair 120GB) has just failed after 24 hours !
Corsair Force GT 120GB (Sandforce 2281 I believe).
Failed just after 6 months in my wife's machine. Over a few weeks I replaced cables to it, replaced AHCI drivers, tried it in IDE and AHCI mode. The PC became less and less likely to come out of sleep.
After a firmware update it lasted a day before giving us the Christmas present of declaring it was a 4 petabyte drive and wouldn't boot.
Put it in another machine to try and recover the data and it seems to be behaving on that motherboard (A75 FM2 chipset rather than AMD 785 AM3) but the wife is sick of the thing and doesn't want it back. She is now using a WD Black drive.
Classic Sandforce death there DanceswithUnix :(
Is the resurrection in the new machine also par for the course? It seemed very sick before, but in the new board it did a plug and play frenzy and then couldn't be happier!Quote:
Originally Posted by Agent
They are extremely temperamental once they start reporting the wrong size / vanishing from the BIOS.
You'll probably find it works fine in another system, until you hit the same issue again. It's the normal way with them I'm afraid. I say this as someone who has been through the hassle of vanishing Sandforce drives from the BIOS :\
Use it by all means, just keep backups!
Thanks for the warning.
ofc now it is working it is rather hard to send back as broken when it is working, so using it until it actually croaks would seem a good idea. Perhaps I should take an image of the drive in case there is anything worth having on there, and then secure erase it to see if that gets it back to factory fresh (for another 6 months).
Intel all the way
I've had my Vertex 2 for almost 3 years and not a problem
No problems with my Crucial M4 so far (touch wood).
OCZ Agility 120 gigger died after a month. the much older Vertex 2e 64 gig still going strong.
Won't be buying OCZ again most likely.
I've had personal experience at home and work with OCZ, Intel and Samsung SSDs.
Multiple OCZ SSDs have failed on me (all older Vertex models), so I'm extremely wary of buying OCZ again in the future.
I've never had a problem with the Intel or Samsung SSDs.
I have just had to RMA an OCZ vertex 3 due to a bad firmware upgrade it reported the upgrade was ok when i rebooted zilch bios saw the drive as Sandforce 1Mb the saying if it aint broke dont fix it sprang to mind, i will not be so eager the next time i see a new firmware released.