SSD reliability- post if you've had a failure (or a reliable drive)

[pcunite]

1 x Intel X25-V 40GB G2
1 x Intel X25-M 80GB G2
1 x Intel 320 80GB

all rock solid, buy intel ssd.

 

[allthatisman]

1x Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 128gb

Not a very common drive, and as far as I know, they are no longer selling them anywhere at the moment... But I've had it since Jan 2010 with zero problems. Installed Win 7 on it about 4-5 times. It's not the fastest drive out there, but it boots into Windows without even flashing the blue "welcome" screen. The numbers could be better, but without a benchmark, it would be hard to tell it from any other good SSD. If you can find one cheap, I'd recommend one. Kind of hope WD stays in the game.

 

[kmmatney]

I haven't had any issues with any SSDs:

1 x Intel G1 80 GB
3 x Intel G2 40 GB
2 X OCZ 64 GB Agility II drives
1 x Microcenter (Adata) 64GB SSD - updated with Adata firmware

In all cases, I updated the firmware right away, and then never touched it. Most of these are running in XP, so I prefer the Intel drives, as they maintain their full speed in XP. the Sandforce drives slow down noticeably after a short period of time. Even my Intel G1 has held up better in XP and the OCZ drives.

Edit - I just received my first Intel 40 GB 320 today. This is going into an XP system, so I went with Intel and the SSD toolbox.

 

[allthatisman]

I haven't had any issues with any SSDs:

1 x Intel G1 80 GB
3 x Intel G2 40 GB
2 X OCZ 64 GB Agility II drives
1 x Microcenter (Adata) 64GB SSD - updated with Adata firmware

In all cases, I updated the firmware right away, and then never touched it. Most of these are running in XP, so I prefer the Intel drives, as they maintain their full speed in XP. the Sandforce drives slow down noticeably after a short period of time. Even my Intel G1 has held up better in XP and the OCZ drives.

Edit - I just received my first Intel 40 GB 320 today. This is going into an XP system, so I went with Intel and the SSD toolbox.

The Sandforce drives slow down in which way, reads and writes, or just writes...? That is kind of curious, since one of the strong points of the Sandforce drives was that they had excellent GC.

 

[Puffnstuff]

My adata s599 120gb drive failed in less than three months of use and is currently at adata for rma.

 

[pculley]

My drive locked up recently; I went to the OCZ forums and found to my surprise a very large number of folks with the same issue.

Has anyone done an investigation/article on what is going on?

OCZ is willing to help get drives running again, via special firmware that completely resets the drive to a 'factory' fresh state, but of course all data is lost.

If I had known that some latent bug was present, I would have updated my firmware a bit more regularly...

 

[jackstar7]

2x Intel 160GB G2, both have been stable

Just picked up a C300 256gb drive. Once I have it installed and do some work I'll see how it does. I'm excited to have a Sata 6 drive to use finally.

 

[super_sinbad]

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB since November last year, no issues.

 

[reb0rn]

intel 320 - 120GB whole 4 days no issues at all (even cloned old HDD install on it) 🙂

btw.. i would skip any SF 22xx new firmware 2.08 didn`t fix BSOD and looks like it will never be fixed 100%

 

[Zargon]

2x30gb vertex's 2 years on one, 1+ year on another
1x60gb vertex 2 years on it
1x96gb kingston few months on it


no issues

 

[abaez]

OCZ Vertex 2 120gb since last August or so. No issues at all.

Upgraded the firmware earlier this year and was kinda freaked out about it but it went fine.

 

[Makaveli]

Not really. To the end user, all they care about is whether it works or not out of the box.
If it doesn't work when they pop it in, it's classified as DOA.

It if fails due to user error (whether due to ESD or failed firmware upgrade attempt), then it should not be posted here- or if they decide to, I'm fairly certain the typical AT member will be honest in where the blame lies.

Samples? Who gets those except for reviewers?
From online vendors where most do their shopping, they get OEM or retail drives.

There's no need to classify it any further. It works, or it doesn't, or it was working for a few weeks then took a crap.

You are correct if you are talking about sheepish best buy users.

However for myself and i'm sure the rest of the users on this forum what he said applies.

**I've had my Intel 160GB G2 drive since Dec 2009 no issues

 

[Elixer]

My drive locked up recently; I went to the OCZ forums and found to my surprise a very large number of folks with the same issue.

Has anyone done an investigation/article on what is going on?

OCZ is willing to help get drives running again, via special firmware that completely resets the drive to a 'factory' fresh state, but of course all data is lost.

If I had known that some latent bug was present, I would have updated my firmware a bit more regularly...

You know, that people with working drives don't post that their SSD works fine, unless it is in this thread. 😉

OCZ is pretty much the top SSD seller, so they sell a ton of units, and only a small percentage had failures. I had a OCZ that failed as well.

AFAIK, nobody knows the real answer on why the drives brick themselves.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I've heard that the sandforce controller goes into panic locking down the drive. My adata had the latest firmware on it and it didn't matter. It just suddenly stopped working and the bios wouldn't see it anymore. I'm hoping that my ocz does better however they're both the same identical drive so who knows. If this one croaks off to intel I go.

 

[hclarkjr]

i am on my second SSD drive and have had 0 problems to date, had my 80gb for almost year and my current one is about 4 months old. both were bought brand new

 

[samboy]

Intel 120GB G2 Purchased Late Feb 2011

Around 1.75TB of writes so far and no problems

Believe it or not, when my 16GB of RAM runs out the writes start on the SSD where I have the page file (and one of the reasons I have the SSD). I expect that this makes my write usage higher than others.

 

[Jacky60]

Had 3 SSD's the first a Ocz 60Gb vertex 2 failed after 11 months. Others-a Vertex 2 50gb and an Intel 320 120GB still going fine.

 

[smakme7757]

I had a 160Gb Corsair Force drive fail no me 3 weeks after i got it. I got it replaced with a 180Gb drive and everything has been running very well.

 

[exar333]

1 x Intel X25-M 80GB G2

Purchased this during the firmware issue month and it has been rock-solid for the past couple years.

 

[Zargon]

The Sandforce drives slow down in which way, reads and writes, or just writes...? That is kind of curious, since one of the strong points of the Sandforce drives was that they had excellent GC.

I think he means in XP where there is no trim support? GC helps with that but isnt perfect right?(never tried to use XP and a SSD, sorry)

 

[sgrinavi]

2 overpriced Vertex 1 - 120's since shortly after launch.. no problems

EDIT - Forgot

I have a pair of 128 Cheepo Kingston's that I stole from Buy.COM for $64 each... I've only had them for a few months, but no issues so far.

 

[StinkyPinky]

My 80GB Intel G2 SSD has been going well for about two years now. No issues.

My fathers SSD (Agility 2 i think) has been going well for about 9 months.