Storage Solutions Alarmingly High failure rate of SSDs!!

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A great post by codinghorror about failing SSD. I was wondering if people on TE share the same experiance

bought a set of three Crucial 128 GB SSDs in October 2009 for the original two members of the Stack Overflow team plus myself. As of last month, two out of three of those had failed. And just the other day I was chatting with Joel on the podcast (yep, it's back), and he casually mentioned to me that the Intel SSD in his Thinkpad, which was purchased roughly around the same time as ours, had also failed.

Portman Wills, friend of the company and generally awesome guy, has a far scarier tale to tell. He got infected with the SSD religion based on my original 2009 blog post, and he went all in. He purchased eight SSDs over the last two years … and all of them failed. The tale of the tape is frankly a little terrifying:

Super Talent 32 GB SSD, failed after 137 days

OCZ Vertex 1 250 GB SSD, failed after 512 days

G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 251 days

G.Skill 64 GB SSD, failed after 276 days

Crucial 64 GB SSD, failed after 350 days

OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD, failed after 72 days

Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 15 days

Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, failed after 206 days

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Read full post: Coding Horror: The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale
 
there is nothing alarming except this thread title :bleh: gaurish bhai please change the title, don't scare everyone.. as most of the members don't read the full article

this is not a survey/study, they are just 3 guys - in particular that 8 drive guy could have just had a crappy power, majority of them first gen SSDs.

keep cool guys. there is warranty and most of us here using SSDs are just using it as os+apps drive. so no worry about data :P

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^Tell me about it! I've a Callisto 60GB working fine for over an year now. *touchwood*

His power supply or a bad SATA controller onboard could've caused this issue. :|
 
Earlier gen SSD's, especially the intel x25s are supposed to have a long life due to the use of high nm Flash cells as compared to current gen drives. But 8 SSDs failing, then there must be something wrong with his setup.
 
My purpose of posting this is not to scare anyone here. rather use this post to as a reminder to for everyone to backup. Don't wait till your SSD/HDD fails:P

anyway, that had guy clarified

A couple of additional points about my abysmal 8/8 failure rate:

- These were in 8 different machines in 8 different locations.

- 7 were in desktops, 1 was a laptop

- All were running Windows

- All purchased from NewEgg

- Most of these were gifts for other people.

After this saga, I've concluded that there are probably two root causes leading to high failure rates:

(1) Something about installing an after-market SSD in a desktop, probably related to power fluctuations, increases the likelihood of failure.

(2) NewEgg only offers a 30-day warranty on their SSDs. You can't even purchase a third-party extended warranty. So I suspect that you'll see a higher failure rate from NewEgg purchases than from a merchant who offers a 2- or 3-year warranty. (But NewEgg's prices are so damn good!)

I should also say that the SSDs that I have purchased with laptops - 2 from Dell (2008, 2009) and 1 from IBM (2009) have not failed.
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Its not a single machine, hence bad setup might not be the cause. I guess its just a bad batch from newegg.
 
2 SSDs almost 2 years old from almost the first generation, still going strong but have been used, hardly for 24-48 hours.
 
Gaurish said:
[...] Don't wait till your SSD/HDD fails:P [...]
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don't jinx us bro :ashamed: anyway it's an OS+apps drive for me. not even games. only problem if it fails is frustration :crash:
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I have the same SSD: Crucial 128 gb and 64 gb bought around the same time, no issues here :)
 
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