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Asparagus

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Recently had a 240 GB Crucial M500 die on me and I need to replace. I'd like to have something comparable in speed and price ($150) with a bias to reliability... An thoughts?

I was assuming cruicial is one of the most reliable drives... :|
 
William Gaatjes

William Gaatjes

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Sometimes you can have just bad luck.

I have a crucial M550 256GB (only for 4 months now) but it is fast and work reliable. I had a very rare power outage a few weeks ago and my pc did survive, windows did not came up with an error on my ssd and hdd.

Model : Crucial_CT256M550SSD1
Firmware : MU01
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-2
Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 6
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 414 hours
Power On Count : 165 count
Host Writes : 453 GB
Wear Level Count : 2
Temperature : 27 C (80 F)
Health Status : Good (100 %)

Half of the host writes can be attributed to installation of OS and the many, many updates i had to do which also went wrong a few times, causing rollbacks before i finally got all updates to install correctly.
 
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dave_the_nerd

dave_the_nerd

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Asparagus said:
Recently had a 240 GB Crucial M500 die on me and I need to replace. I'd like to have something comparable in speed and price ($150) with a bias to reliability... An thoughts?

I was assuming cruicial is one of the most reliable drives... :|
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They are.
 
Essence_of_War

Essence_of_War

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Asparagus said:
Recently had a 240 GB Crucial M500 die on me and I need to replace. I'd like to have something comparable in speed and price ($150) with a bias to reliability... An thoughts?

I was assuming cruicial is one of the most reliable drives... :|
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Are you sure you need to spend money on it? Is it under warranty/RMA'able?
 
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jkauff

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http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

The Samsung 840 Pro outlasted its competition. That said, I once had one go dead on me, but it turned out to be an electrical problem rather than the drive. A year later, the refurb I got back is running great.

Is your Crucial out of warranty? If not, that's obviously the most cost-effective route if you can live without it until the replacement arrives.
 
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COPOHawk

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Intel SSD's have been the most reliable I have found. I have installed about 80 of them over the last 4 years...all the models with 5 yr warranty. Only had 2 bad ones...each one was good out of the box, and started to fail around the year mark...but I was still able to clone over to replacement SSD. Also, Intel tech support was great to deal with for replacement under warranty.
 
Yuriman

Yuriman

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It's probably pretty safe to bet on Intel here, even if their drives aren't the fastest.
 
Elixer

Elixer

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Asparagus said:
Recently had a 240 GB Crucial M500 die on me and I need to replace. I'd like to have something comparable in speed and price ($150) with a bias to reliability... An thoughts?

I was assuming cruicial is one of the most reliable drives... :|
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You didn't finish answering the questions in your other thread.
You can't assume your crucial is dead.
 
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hhhd1

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COPOHawk said:
Intel SSD's have been the most reliable I have found. I have installed about 80 of them over the last 4 years...all the models with 5 yr warranty. Only had 2 bad ones...each one was good out of the box, and started to fail around the year mark...but I was still able to clone over to replacement SSD. Also, Intel tech support was great to deal with for replacement under warranty.
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What Intel models where the ones that gone bad ?
 
aigomorla

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my vote intel!

however crucial has paired up with intel.... so i guess crucial is in that list as well.

But i still have a X25-E i use as a temp drive which is still going on strong, and i have hammered that sucker to kingdom come..
But its a SLC drive so i guess u cant really count that in this thread.
 
Cerb

Cerb

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Asparagus said:
Recently had a 240 GB Crucial M500 die on me and I need to replace. I'd like to have something comparable in speed and price ($150) with a bias to reliability... An thoughts?

I was assuming cruicial is one of the most reliable drives... :|
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How did it die? As of the last thread, it seemed alive.
 
dave_the_nerd

dave_the_nerd

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hhhd1 said:
What Intel models where the ones that gone bad ?
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I vaguely remember a FW bug that would turn some X25-Ms into 8GB flash drives.

The more recent Intel consumer models are Sandforce drives, with all the unfair baggage that comes with. (The latest firmware works fine. Really!)

The mostest-recent models based on Intel's own controller are kinda expensive. But they work darn well.
 
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Reliability is not just write endurance.

Most of the SSDs dies in sudden cases which the controllers face a bug and can't jump over it then close itself.

I believe the enterprise based drives are better solution. You can pick some Intel 710 or DC S3500 if you find in acceptable price.
 
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bradley

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Buy an older MLC drive like the Samsung 830 or Plextor M3. They have been proven to be rock-solid over time. Yet most people believe newer equals better, so you can find them at great prices.
 
dave_the_nerd

dave_the_nerd

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bradley said:
Buy an older MLC drive like the Samsung 830 or Plextor M3. They have been proven to be rock-solid over time. Yet most people believe newer equals better, so you can find them at great prices.
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bigboxes

bigboxes

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The SSD in my sig, the SanDisk Extreme Pro, has a ten year warranty. Just add that to the many recommendations.
 
Cerb

Cerb

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Unless something new has happened, my vote is still on re-using the old drive, because it never seemed like a drive problem to begin with.
 
mikeymikec

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Diogenes2 said:
The most reliable drive is the one that is backed up the most often...
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:)

Having said that, I backed up my boot HDD (a Seagate 7200.12), fairly aggressively which I still had to replace at 4 years old. I think a failing drive might look for the weak spot in one's backup strategy and attempt to exploit it :)

I've bought a few Crucial M4s for customers and probably ~20x Samsung 840 PROs (and a few 850 PROs), no problems yet.
 
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