On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Jeppe Øland <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Interesting. Have a few 30-120 GB Vertex 1s around here. Been OK once OCZ got the firmware stablized and pretty stable. The Vertex 2 should be MUCH faster than the Vertex 1 - at least that's what all the benchmarks say. Have a Vertex 2 around here somewhere - it also has had a few minor issues where it wasn't always detected at boot, but OK now that the firmware has stabilized. I have a 120GB Intel 320 in my laptop - been flawless so far - but the Intel forums report that if it loses power unexpectedly it can basically "brick" and you lose all your data. Intel is still working on a firmware fix for this. Seems that SSDs have traded one type of failure mode for another at this point. I expect them to get all the bugs worked out eventually. The performance and power usage of them is so great that I use them in any new build where random IO performance is an issue. -Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
