SSD Failure Rates

[Scouse]

Just had 'doze come up and tell me there's errors on my C: drive. It's a couple of years old 120Gb SSD.

That replaced a couple of years old SSD that failed without warning.

How often are you guys experiencing failures on SSDs?

I'll end up having to replace it - can't have it fail on me proper - so it'll probably end up as a tertiary SSD (I already use one exclusively for steam so a second would give me loads of game space).


*sigh*
Gonna let windows run chkdsk to repair errors (always a worry that windows'll brick it).
Will run Macrium and do a full C: image when that's run.
Time to purchase a new SSD and do the funky image dance.

 

[caLLous]

How often are you guys experiencing failures on SSDs?

I haven't, yet.

Why not create the image before running chkdsk? Just in case.

 

[Hawkwind]

1 fail in last 4 years

 

[Poag]

0 failures in 4-5 years. 5 SSDs in the PC.

Most of mine are fairly cheap SANDisk jobs aswell so i didn't hold out great hope for longevity.

 

[ECA]

1 failure, from a known batch that was shitty ( ocz vertex 3 ).

 

[Poag]

1 failure, from a known batch that was shitty ( ocz vertex 3 ).

Hmm concerning, think i have a 120GB OCZ VP 3.5 in my machine....was it a certain serial range?

 

[Embattle]

1 vertex and 1 sandisk in something like 8 years or so.

 

[Tom]

I don't think I've ever suffered a HD failure, mechanical or SSD. I've had some that have developed bad sectors, but nothing that ever refused to boot.

 

[ECA]

Hmm concerning, think i have a 120GB OCZ VP 3.5 in my machine....was it a certain serial range?

The 3.5s should be fine, the 3 had something like a 15% 1 year failure rate.

 

[old.Osy]

I think it's 4 years old? The values are not great, but i've had no issues with it yet.

 

[TdC]

br0ken tbh Osy.

me...nothing yet *touches Wij's wood*

 

[soze]

My personal machine have never had a break. But my work laptop had one die when I upgraded to 10. That was used very rarely and was a Toshiba SSD. We also had a customer try to run a SQL server on consumer SSD's because Enterprise were a waste of money. They lasted about 3 months lol.

 

[Deebs]

Mine is two years old and still going strong

 

[Exioce]

My Samsung came with an app that measures total usage. I think they are rated to something like 1PB of data transfer over their lifetimes.
Absolutely not going to be a problem at the rate I've been using mine.
Does put me off these new automatic recording techniques though.