Hardware & Technical SSD reliability

[Porina]

Just an open question following from comments in another thread: has anyone had a SSD die? If so, what make, model and capacity was it? How old was it at the time? If known, what was the cause of death?

I'd imagine there are a LOT of working SSDs out there so I'd request that comments should only be made relating to failures, and not that there are no problems. I'd also request this be limited only to SSDs. No SSHDs or HDs.

 

[Asp Explorer]

This little thing is still going strong

The majority of the failures I have seen were Mushkin. Drive capacity failure.

I've seen eMMC units melt (not really SSD's but close enough in tablets etc) and hugely expensive enterprise drives fail upon first initialization.

I don't even want to get started on big flash storage arrays

 

[Yaffle]

Never had one fail, but still run a daily backup just in case.

I do wonder if the chances of a disk failing is inversely proportional to the frequency with which it is backed up.

 

[Asp Explorer]

Never had one fail, but still run a daily backup just in case.

I do wonder if the chances of a disk failing is inversely proportional to the frequency with which it is backed up.

My own theory that the chances of a disk failing are directly proportional to the importance of data just written, the expense of the RAID setup, and adherence to the B.A.C.K.U.P* philosophy.

*Backing Up Can Kill Urgent Productivity

 

[GJ51]

I have tons of both spinners and SSD's.

Spinners die all the time.

Never yet have I lost and SSD.

I have a small server farm in my basement with about 120TB of storage plus laptops and desktops all over the house.

I have way more faith in a quality SSD compared to a spinner. I use Crucials for servers and Samsung for desktops. Never an issue with either.

 

[Asp Explorer]

I have tons of both spinners and SSD's.

Spinners die all the time.

Never yet have I lost and SSD.

I have a small server farm in my basement with about 120TB of storage plus laptops and desktops all over the house.

I have way more faith in a quality SSD compared to a spinner. I use Crucials for servers and Samsung for desktops. Never an issue with either.

OK - I know I wasn't going to say anything about enterprise flash storage - but our weekly replacements arrive by the pallet. I really cannot say any more.

 

[Glock_N_Load]

Just an open question following from comments in another thread: has anyone had a SSD die? If so, what make, model and capacity was it? How old was it at the time? If known, what was the cause of death?

I'd imagine there are a LOT of working SSDs out there so I'd request that comments should only be made relating to failures, and not that there are no problems. I'd also request this be limited only to SSDs. No SSHDs or HDs.

I would say SSD failure rate would be comparable to the failure rate of system memory.

 

[Surfinjo]

I had HDDs last for years and had almost not trouble with my SSDs.

But I still backup and take normal precautions.

With an HDD, if the worst comes to the worst, I can always get a professional recovery service to get most of my data back. With an SSD, I suspect that any problems will mean the entire drive is gone.

Hence my preference fro running at least two SSDs at a time.

 

[NE1]

Like others never had one fail myself, SSD's that have worse health below 90% seem to come from laptops where heat is the main issue.
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[Patrick_68000]

Never had a problem with my SSD. Corsair and the last is a Samsung 10-year warranty. However I backup my data on the hard disks and also in the cloud