Recent content by Helicobacter

my seagate also died after about 2 years. i realize that this is a ridiculously small sample size and that other vendors can be just as bad, but ive just had some personal aversion against seagate because of it. data from the last years shows that hitachi drives are about 50% more likely to fail...

I really wish the M4 would be included in this poll. Not only is this one of the reliable drives, it would also be a good representative of the Marvel family. Also, it's SATA3, like the other two. Perhaps, also the Plextor M3S.

No surprise there ( see http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?97048-Results-of-one-month-of-testing-13-Vertex-3-s-with-2.15-firmware ).

I have noticed that SSD's are more prone to failure as "on" time increases rather than data volume increases. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm Even the "unreliable drives" can pack a decent chuck of load. Compared to the common failures...

To summarize my recent conversation with my buddy: Chris has since updated to the second firmware and (after secure erase) observed similar heavy performance drops as well as high WA. This could be indicative of a larger problem. The M4 has not had that kind of degradation - after more...

I found a good article on SSD reliability and real world stats (unfortunately all Intel MLC enterprise): http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923.html

My buddy from a different forum just sent me a message saying that the read/write speed of the Samsung 830 gets much worse over time. He sourced: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm/page138 New: Afterwards:

I wish there was a public Pareto chart of SSD failures. When the consensus is firmware is the leading root cause, is it because of compatibility issues? Why would so many SSD's suddenly die after, say, 150-1000 days if that were the case? Only the minority (i.e., enthusiasts) flash their...

Have you even read the last post? Who says I ignored them? I never made that claim. How is picking higher level of granulation wrong? If someone asks for why people sneeze and someone puts up a survey with choices: A cold, allergy, fever, dust. Then someone else complains, "well it's...

You have a point there, but I think your reaction is over-the-top. Regarding point 1: Yes, it's provocative it is but is it not true, based on the statistics? Just because it's provocative doesn't mean it's dumb or untrue. Regarding point 2: I have no evidence (I only know the stats from one...

It is good one one side to have a vendor that pushes forward, but it's again a tradeoff: Do I want to wait like the harpies or take risk. And it's good for everyone that OCZ takes the first bite. But wouldn't that have hurt ALL vendors and therefore increasing high RMA's across the board?

Guilty as charged. It's still your call - and therefore responsibility - to accept the controller or not. If Toyota comes out with a Camry 2013 that uses untested parts - it is Toyota's fault for using them . If another company, say Honda, offsets the launch of a new vehicle and loses...

I don't own shares/work for any competitor (or have any relatives that do) and I never owned an SSD by any manufacturer. AND I acknowledge the fact that OCZ has some of the fastest SSD's in the market, which is the main point of having these devices anyway.

Yes I am an SSD n00b and didn't know about firmware, but you have to start somewhere. A quantum mechanics professor answering a simplistic question of an interested student saying "Your question is dumb" is kind of a dick.

Sample: 1 Days running/wear level: Unknown