Comments on: Solid-State Drive (SSD) Reliability Problems?

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:36:03 +0000

I think that like early hard drives, over time their general reliability will improve.

That’s what I’m hoping for at least :-)

By: Richard Justice

Richard Justice — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:10:50 +0000

It is data suicide to rely on any SSDs other than Intel’s.

By: Tac-M

Tac-M — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:38:43 +0000

I am looking at 2 dead 128gb ssd’s this morning. Both are under 2 months old.

Let me tell you, this is not a pleasant experience .

By: Waheed

Waheed — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:32:25 +0000

Sorry, “I” didn’t die, “IT” died. (eventhough it almost cause my heart to stop)

By: Waheed

Waheed — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:29:57 +0000

I have a Corsair X256 and I paid dearly for it. I died in less than 24Hrs. I upgraded from a 120GB HDD (so I made a drive copy of the whole 120GB). After a few hours of usage it just died. First it froze in Windows Vista, then when I restarted my Lenovo T60p gave me a 2100 Error: Initialization failure. The SSD didn’t even work externally. Now I requested a RMA from Corsair and waiting for an answer. I use the laptop for development, if this is the case with SSD’s I lost faith in them.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:38:59 +0000

I had 2 250GB solid state drive’s in a row fail. The first time before I could even complete logging in the first time. The second drive lasted around an hour and the died. I’m rather surprised that the quality control / is so bad that they would be failing that frequently. The specific drives were OCZ SATA II 2.5″ solid state drive.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:19 +0000

I just had a Crucial 256GB SSD (CT256M225) just die after 15 days of use. For $600 you’d think you’d see more reliability. My Windows XP system as frozen, powered my laptop down, when it booted backup up the drive as not recognized.

I put the SSD into the 2.5″ USB 2.0 enclosure and I could not see my data and could not reformat it via Disk Management. This is my first hard drive crash ever in over 14 years as a laptop user.

Thankful for Mozy.com online backup and a clone of my original drive.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:18:53 +0000

Interesting discussion so far. However, I am still nowhere in my decision to go or no go with SSD.

Considering a Dell Latitude XT2, and need the drive to last at least 3 years (typical time before I change the laptop).

I wish there were more comments in this article which could help me out :)

Thanks for posting this

By: AskYourPC

AskYourPC — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:08:10 +0000

Yeah, if data is important to you then you should consider getting a reliable HHD. If you have money then get the SLC version of the solid state drives. But then again, SSDs haven’t been used for very long with operating systems. This is somewhat new technology in terms of the market but it has been out since about 2000. Its just beginning to heat up. I would wait about a year or two to see if people are experiencing any major problems. I know that these drives are not good for servers but for simple use they are not bad. I know that people come in from search engines to this article to research SSD reliability. Because of that, I will let you and your viewers know when my SSD MLC fails. I started using it on Feb 3, 2009.

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:23:37 +0000

Most of the systems that I heard about failing weren’t Windows systems. For mass storage devices I don’t think most people would consider speed and responsiveness as their top priority. Those are important, but being generally reliable for storing data is probably the single most important aspect.