Life of an SSD.

[Kippa]

I had an Crucial 128gb SSD which died on me a few days ago. It was just over 2 years old and was used heavly. Time wise so far of the life time of and SSD would that be about right?

At the moment using my Western Digital hard drive, not contemplating using a new ssd unless lifetime can be extended to more than 2 years.

 

[mikeymikec]

If you had a 2-year-old hard disk die, would you assume that most hard disks only last two years?

Have you checked the warranty length for that SSD?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Still havent had a single SSD die on me. Not in servers or at home. And the oldest is X25-M G1.

In average SSDs will easily outlast HDs. However since you as a person only accounts for a very small sample. Then someone will obviously encounter something out of the norm.

You can also find people that got a 10 year old HD that havent failed. And you find people whos HDs dies after 1 month.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

I had an Crucial 128gb SSD which died on me a few days ago. It was just over 2 years old and was used heavly. Time wise so far of the life time of and SSD would that be about right?

At the moment using my Western Digital hard drive, not contemplating using a new ssd unless lifetime can be extended to more than 2 years.

Look at this thread:

Link

Several people are stress testing multiple SSD's, and you can see that, in general, last a long time before "wearing out" the flash memory. I bet that unless you were doing some crazy stuff with your SSD, it's total writes are less then the ones in the thread above.

As others have said though, "stuff" happens, and things can die right away or in 10 years.

 

[smakme7757]

SSDs don't die naturally by component failure. When people talk about "life" of an SSD they are referring to the amount of times you can write to the NAND chips. All that will happen when you reach this limit (which is very unlikely) is a write lock will be activated and you will only be able to read from the SSD.

So your dead SSD isn't because of a "SSD life span" it's because it was defective.

 

[corkyg]

Yes, a defective drive is a distinct possibility. But, so is the possibility that your system lost contact with the drive or some other anomaly caused it to be "dead." It would help if you explained the death evidence in more detail. Also, how full was the SSD? How much freespace did it have. Was the freespace consolidated? Was garbage regularly and properly collected?

 

[hhhd1]

I hope that there would be a smart data screenshot (using something like crystaldiskinfo) , specially near the end or after the end.

 

[Ben90]

Lol, BAKE IT!

 

[Muse]

The Intel 520 SSD's come with 5 year warranty, the boxed versions.

 

[blastingcap]

Check your SATA cable, a faulty one caused my SSD to not show up; I had to switch it out. Also try different SATA ports in case your mobo is failing. Not saying that the SSD did NOT die... just saying that maybe something else caused it, so it's worth checking.

 

[hhhd1]

You should explain how exactly it "died", there are some ways to fix dissapearing of the ssd posted on crucial forums.