Chris, I was not attempting a full blown statistical comparison on the reliability of the SSDs as offed by the various manufacturers. I was simply noting that, like John, I have had trouble with the particular 128GB Intel SSDs shipped with the T410s, and have not had trouble with any of the replacements, regardless of brand.
As I noted before, of all our T410s, my personal machine has the last standing original issue SSD. Since my sample size is too small to prove anything, does that mean I should rely on the SSD that has a marked history of failing just as much as the ones that don't? No of course not, that would be exceedingly foolish. So that is why when I travel I use as my primary drive one of those that does not have a history of failing AND take along the remaining Intel SSD AND a Bootable USB just in case. Cheers, Kurt On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > You sample space is to small. You can't say if Samsung is better then IBM > because you've only tested one or two of each type. > > Kind of like tossing a coin once. You conclude that "the Nickel landed > tails up but my dime landed heads up. So if you prefer heads I'd say you > should use dimes." > > Seriously. Remember that statistics class where they talked about > confidence levels? You to need to test hundreds of drives before you can > say anything about their reliability. > > But we can read about tests of thousand of hard disk drives. Backblaze > owns and uses about 10,000 disk drives in their data center and publish > what they find every quarter. > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/ > > Backblaze is not yet using SSDs but today almost all web hosting companies > are using SSD. But I can't find published data, > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Chris Albertson < > albertson.ch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kurt Jacobson <kurtcjacob...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Interesting John. What ThinkPad do you have? I have had a couple of the > >> 128gb SSDs in our T410s fail, some after less than a year. I have been > >> replacing them with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. I have not had problems > with > >> either. The original were Intel, which I would think would be decent, > but I > >> guess not. > -- > > Chris Albertson > Redondo Beach, California > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
