nsane.forums Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Welcome to the dawn of the SSD age. Solid-state drives now offer great performance at affordable prices, which is why more and more users are choosing them in new PCs and adding them to older ones. I'm a big fan myself, but I want to share a cautionary tale. About six months ago, an acquaintance of mine installed an SSD in his laptop. Initially, he was delighted: the drive helped his system boot faster and run longer between trips to the wall socket. Then, one day, out of the blue, the drive died. No clicking, no "imminent failure" message, no warning of any kind--just a dead drive. It's under warranty, but so what? He has a laptop that won't boot and data he can't access. Now, I've encountered a few failed (or failing) hard drives in my day, but all of them were traditional, mechanical models. In most cases I was able to rescue my data using various conventional methods: booting from a Linux flash drive, pulling the drive and connecting it to another PC, and so on. But for the most part, a dead SSD is a dead SSD. If you've ever had a flash drive go bad on you, you get the idea. It's not just corrupted data, which is often recoverable; it's simply a hardware failure. And unless you're willing to pay for a professional data-recovery service like DriveSavers, you're outta luck. That's why I make this recommendation to anyone using an SSD for the first time: Make regular backups. (Actually, I recommend that to everyone, but it's especially important with SSDs.) Keep an external hard drive on hand for local archiving, and take advantage of cloud services for secondary protection. Remember: The data you save could be your own. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted May 23, 2013 Administrator Share Posted May 23, 2013 Don't own a SSD, but never actually thought that them SSDs can fail too. And by fail I mean not cells being exhausted by use, but general hardware failure.Still, I feel SSDs might be suffering for lesser hardware failures than HDDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyn Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Yeah a while back I was looking into getting one, and when I found out THAT dirty little secret of their outright failure with no warning whether from too many writes or just a hardware failure, I backed off. I've had MANY (Seagate and Maxtor) drives fail on me, but I usually got some warning, usually to get some or all files out. I've currently almost switched out of all my Seagates. I've had one that has been sent out 3x, each time they've sent a different drive, and each time the replacement fails, many bad sectors and then eventually write failures, and then bam dead. Only reason I had those Seagates was because they HAD 5 year warranties, those are all gone (the warranties) now. A few years back they said they were lowering their 5 year warranties down to 1 year, but that it had nothing to do with the quality of their drives (RIIIIIGHT, because when you think your product will last what you do is lower the warranty by 80%). I'm now using Western Digital Black and Western Digital Red drives. They have 5 and 3 year warranties respectively. So far as I know, WD is the only brand with 5 year warranties on consumer type drives. While Seagates are cheap, they're also "cheaply/badly" made and WD is maybe 1.5 to 2x the price of a Seagate, but I'd rather pay that and get a 5yr warranty than a 1 year warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Fortunately, I only have OSes installed on my SSDs. Had one on my desktop fail on me after 3 months <_< No data lost, but still annoying. I'm actually leaning towards SSDs having a higher failure rate than HDDs.Edit: While I didn't get any notifications that the drive was failing, Windows kept on blue screening. That should be more than enough of a hint IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDistortions Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Don't own a SSD, but never actually thought that them SSDs can fail too. And by fail I mean not cells being exhausted by use, but general hardware failure.Still, I feel SSDs might be suffering for lesser hardware failures than HDDs.I read somewhere that when SSD's first came out they had firmware problems (or something to that extent?) so when i was building my PC back in 2012 i just decided to get a hard drive instead. But sometimes hard drives tho don't warn you when they are about to die either. It's mostly due to the PCB board going out i think. That's probably what's happening with some of the SSD's failing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 It's a known issue SSDs have a shorter life span. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 that has a name.:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescenceand all SSD drives have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordi Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 so SSD MTBF is shorter than traditional HDD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 very horrible news for a newer technology which supposed to supersede the old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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