Has to be model specific. Some Intel SSDs use their own controllers, some use Sandforce, some use others still. Unfortunately, they're not all equal.
I had one Intel 2500 Pro (same as 520 series) that went bad, a known issue with power saving causing massively amplified writes, but it gave me months of warning before it finally started having troubles, and months more where it would still run. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane K. Sherrington Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] SSD drives ? I'm hearing about a ton of failures on Intel SSDs on another list (guy who bought 100 is at 30 dead in six months). T On 23/09/2019 2:46 p.m., Naushad Zulfiqar wrote: > While the performance of the Kingston's isn't all that. They are > cheap and cheerful. I second the recommendation. > > Check out the intel drives. I've been using them and really like them. > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:45 PM Christopher Fisk < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We have some older PC's here that we're upgrading the drives from HDD >> to SSD's and for $30 you can get Kingston 240gb drives from amazon. >> I've not had any issues with the upgrade. >> >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:44 AM FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Always use Samsung or Crucial, anyone ever used a WD SSD drive ? >>> >>> have a older customer build in need of new drives to replace the >>> wore out spinners >>> >>> fufman >>> >>> >>> >
