> It appears that lower-price SSD manufacturers don’t do much testing of their > gear to validate expected service life. Either that, or their expectations > of what ‘normal’ disk I/O patterns are doesn’t match reality.
It's amazing how unreliable many SSDs still are :-( I had a OCZ Vertex 1 (Indilinx) in my home PC for 2 years ... every 3 months it would corrupt fatally (BIOS wouldn't even see it). After 3 RMAs I got them to replace it with a Vertex 2 (Sandforce), and that one is stable as a rock. ... Slightly slower than the Indilinx - but who cares about that when it's at the expense of stability. SMART on the Kingston is useless. No errors registered at all. Full surface write/read shows no problems either. I guess I'll be best off putting something else in the box ... too bad. I really liked the idea of a tiny SSD. Regards, -Jeppe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
