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Sandisk Extreme 240GB reliability?

Hulk

Hulk

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So I picked up a Sandisk Extreme 240GB for $220 in a recent hot deal. My plan is to replace my boot drive (Intel 320 120GB) and data drive (Kingston V100) with it. Now I'm a little worried about reliability. I checked Newegg and Amazon and the results are very positive, not like the othes sandforce drives. But I'm still a little nervous about making the swap.
Anyone have one of these?
 
I have a 120GB one in my work laptop, so far no issues. Awesome deals on these things, thinking of getting a 480GB version.

Its a sandforce based drive with 24nm Toggle NAND and firmware modified by sandisk. There is a new firmware out for them as well, so we might be getting good support for these drives from Sandisk.
 
I think I'm going to make the switch and back up often until I feel comfortable with it and then go back to my normal once a week back up routine.
 
Yea I'm still a bit cautious with using a sandforce drive in my work computer. Right now I do backups once a day if I have been working on it. In my personal comps sf-2281 drives have been solid though.

BTW pulled the trigger on the 480GB version, 1$ AU per GB is an awesome price. (Considering something like a 480GB Agility 3 with slow async nand is around 1.4$ per GB)
 
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Prices are dropping on SSD's at an amazing rate. First the 120-128GB models started to drop but the larger ones held fast. Now the larger sizes are dropping as well. I think in less than a year we'll be seeing 50 cents/GB. Maybe less.
 
there is a website. it shows MLC drives last about 2-12 months at server duty and all fail.

slc drives are still going. iirc the X25-V did great (notice the slow write iops like the 710) and the ocz's dropped like flies due to LTT (throttled to useless) and a few other common brands died in 2 months.

We were thinking of using MLC or eMLC but the prices on SLC drives are down to a buck/gig so might as well rock some older 50nm tech that will last 5 years and perhaps be slower - than to have your entire raid die at the same time (due to wear-out/throttle) - and yeah it goes down like that. raid'ing two drives from birth has a very high likelyness of total failure compared to drives. raid'ing two brands or staggering the raid in ssd is very important! raid-0 - doesn't matter though, but some people like raid-1/10
 
I have an Agility3, another SF-2281 controlled SSD, and I'm pretty pleased with it. I did have one hiccup (random BSOD's) that I thought were memory related but now I think more SSD related. I did ckdsk and now all is well...

I still think the SF-2281 is a pretty solid controller (at least in my experience,) and much depends on manufacturer FW, it's application (RAID, etc) and how it's used (I don't sleep or hibernate.)

Do I trust it? Yea, sort of. I do W7 backup images once a month, along with weekly data backups (something I should be doing, anyway, regardless of drive.) I'll be upgrading from the 60GB A3 soon, but I'll probably go with another SSD (I really want a Plextor M3...) when I do. Reliability is paramount, my desktop is my and my wife's business computer... if the comp BSOD's when shes using it, I'm likely to find it in the middle of the street with tire tracks on it. My wife isn't very tolerant of computer problems.
 
I picked up a sandisk extreme for $209ish on buy.com a few weeks back. it kicks ass and haven't had any issues. i sleep/hibernate my machine all the time too.
 
NewEgg has the 240GB Extreme for $215 shipped, right now. I might pull the trigger. I was hoping to wait for a deal on the Plextor M3P 256GB, but it hasn't budged from $375. The Sandisk seems to be reliable. The $160 saved could be used for a sound card.
 
The newer gen of sandforce has sorted out every issue pretty much.

You drive will be fine, See if you can find update firmware for this. gl
 
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