Most reliable SSD released in the last 5 years?

[hhhd1]

What SSD would you get if you are traveling and/or shipping internationally, and there is no chance to use any warranty service.

Speed is not important.

Used or new, old version or new version, doesn't really matter.

What would you do, and why ?

 

[Charlie98]

Crucial or Intel, whichever model fits the size and budget target.

I've had very good luck with my Intel and Crucial SSD's, more so than the darling of the SSD world... the Samsung. I'm sure there are other good ones out there (Plextor comes to mind...) but those are the two I would pick. Knock it down to once choice: Intel.

 

[aigomorla]

<---- still has a first generation intel SSD getting hammered but kicking strong...

Well its a X25-E tho... SLC... so i guess u cant count it,

i have another intel SSD 2nd generation, which isnt SLC that still is working in a Smoothwall box.


What would i use if i needed something reliable?
Most likely a sammy 850.

 

[Elixer]

That is a tough one, since ANY SSD can fail on you.
I have had a Sammy 830 fail on me, and that was supposed to be reliable. Obviously, for me, it wasn't.
Currently, my 3 Crucial SSDs are still going strong, 2 BXs, and 1 MX.

Thus, the only answer someone can give you is, no matter what you buy, you must make active backups, and thus, you will always have a reliable image on standby.

In other words, buy a couple of them, and write the data you need on both, and the odds of having both of them fail compared to one of them is pretty low. Though, they can be stolen...which is just as bad as a failure.

 

[Sabrewings]

Thus, the only answer someone can give you is, no matter what you buy, you must make active backups, and thus, you will always have a reliable image on standby.

This. If it's important, back it up. No question. I make weekly images of my RAID 5 array, just because backup.

 

[MongGrel]

I'd vote Crucial these days in general, have a few Sammys also.

The main rig has the Sammy 850 EVOs, but have put Crucials in a few others here and friends rigs.

I still see nothing at all wrong with a 850 EVO myself, I've had no problems with mine.

 

[myocardia]

If you want them to be reliable, then copy the people who buy SSDs for their reliability. Google, Yahoo, E-bay, most of the rendering farms on Earth, pretty much all buy Intel. If you can afford them, buy their more expensive 'enterprise' models. They're built at least as well as tanks.

 

[bbhaag]

Good lord I can't imagine what an enterprise Intel SSD costs.

I've had good luck with Plextor(64gb M3), Crucial(the tried and true M500), and believe it or not my Kingston V300. She may not be fast but has been reliable.

 

[readymix]

as they say, "past performance is no guarantee of future results". But I know there are 2 each of intel g2 and Samsung 470 out there still chugging along.

 

[Gronnie]

This really depends on use case. What will you be using the drive for? Will your use be very write intensive, very read intensive, mixed?

 

[CiPHER]

Intel 320 without a doubt.

True Intel controller with internal SRAM buffercache
Power-safe capacitors spanning capable of powering the entire buffercache
RAID4 bitcorrection to protect against unreadable pages

One of the best and most reliable consumer-grade SSDs ever made. And unlikely to be surpassed soon, for the firmware and controller has such a proven track record and newer controllers and firmwares have yet to prove themselves.

 

[flopper]

today, 850 pro

 

[corkyg]

Anecdotal evidence is often personal. To really get a handle on reliability, one needs to look at RMA percentages and warranty exercises. Aside from data at retailers, anyone have this info?

 

[Phynaz]

Intel. As far as I'm aware they are the only company to publicly disclose their failure rate info.

http://techreport.com/review/26269/behind-the-scenes-with-intel-ssd-division

 

[CiPHER]

 

[thilanliyan]

I've stuck with Intel. Have a 335 and 535...both are still going.

 

[ViviTheMage]

My OCZ Agility 60gb is still going strong in my 24/7 box. I think it's been on for about 3-4 years straight now.

 

[CiPHER]

There are also heavy smokers who get to live 99 years. But that doesn't mean smoking is healthy. Likewise, OCZ is the crappiest SSD with some models having failure rates above 50% (!!!!!). You cannot be serious considering this to be one of the 'most reliable SSDs'. OCZ has sold the worst SSDs in history, almost to the point of being a criminal enterprise.

 

[Sabrewings]

OCZ's Agility and Vertex's were questionable. I have a Vertex 3 still going fine, but there were issues with the Sandforce controllers. Their latest drives (since being bought by Toshiba) like the Arc series are pretty reliable.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/s...llenge-kitguru-to-kill-5x-arc-100-ssd-drives/

http://www.kitguru.net/components/s...nge-update-all-5-arc-100-ssds-hit-300tb-mark/

 

[CiPHER]

They are crap. They do not have any protection against power loss and their purchase of Indilinx has not meant much because their controller is still an in-house made design and not based on the controller of Indilinx - which was very inferior to begin with.

Proper SSDs have at least RAID4 or RAID5 bitcorrection and power-safe capacitors. This is the bare minimum for a reliable SSD on paper. Without these protections, an SSD can still be adequately reliable but not reliable on paper because a 'window of opportunity' exists which can corrupt the entire SSD and the data contents. In the year 2015 this is simply unacceptable. For a few dollars more, you get yourself a REAL SSD.

Crucial MX200 is such an SSD. A fair price, fair performance but decent protections: RAID5 bitcorrection + power-safe capacitors enough to prevent interrupting a concurrent write operation. Most consumer grade SSDs do not have such protections and may be decently reliable if they have stable firmware, but continue to bear a design flaw by not being protected against known risks, just because you consumers don't know shit about this stuff and continue to buy inferior crap to save a few dollars. You betray your own interests by doing so.

 

[Harry_Wild]

I would go with an Intel SSD or Samsung 850 Pro!

All the Thinkpads have Intel SSD. Samsung 850 Pro has a 10 year warranty and is one of the fastest!

You can back up your PC either on the cloud or on a 128GB USB drive for backup.

 

[joutlaw]

My Crucial M4 128GB is still going strong after 4 years.

 

[Charlie98]

My OCZ Agility 60gb is still going strong in my 24/7 box. I think it's been on for about 3-4 years straight now.

OCZ's Agility and Vertex's were questionable.

Same with my Agility3 60GB... it's actually been a very good drive... but given the OCZ/SF2281 history, I wouldn't rush out and buy another one. Having said that, I would buy a Toshiba/OCZ (still don't know why they kept the OCZ name alive... ) for general purpose use if the price was right.

For the OP's purpose, however, I wouldn't recommend it.

Most consumer grade SSDs do not have such protections and may be decently reliable if they have stable firmware, but continue to bear a design flaw by not being protected against known risks, just because you consumers don't know shit about this stuff and continue to buy inferior crap to save a few dollars. You betray your own interests by doing so.

It's a matter of economics... just because you don't drop coin for the enterprise-level parts doesn't mean we don't know anything. Just because a component doesn't have a full feature set doesn't mean it's a piece of crap... motherboards would be a good example of this. ANY component can fail at ANY time... how you prepare for that is more important than the component itself. If my SSD fails right now... it's OK, I have 4 redundant backups just waiting to be mounted.

 

[eton975]

It's a matter of economics... just because you don't drop coin for the enterprise-level parts doesn't mean we don't know anything. Just because a component doesn't have a full feature set doesn't mean it's a piece of crap... motherboards would be a good example of this. ANY component can fail at ANY time... how you prepare for that is more important than the component itself. If my SSD fails right now... it's OK, I have 4 redundant backups just waiting to be mounted.

Yes, but some components fail more than others. And components with high failure rates are pieces of crap.

I'd take my chances with a single HGST Ultrastar over a single ST3000DM001, and rightly so.

 

[Charlie98]

I'd take my chances with a single HGST Ultrastar over a single ST3000DM001, and rightly so.

When that drive hit the market it was just as good as any other 3TB drive... history tells us now that isn't quite true. I happen to have one of those 3TB Seagates... and it's been fine, but, following my logic in my previous statement, if it drops dead tomorrow (which, statistically, is quite possible) I have a backup. I also have a Samsung 840Pro SSD... it dropped dead in less than a year... that doesn't mean it's a piece of crap, it just means I drew a short straw for that particular component.

Why would I spend twice as much for a HGST enterprise drive (your example) to store backed up video files on? For that price, I can get 2 consumer level drives and have a backup drive... a far better solution, IMHO, than just one 'really good' drive.