SSD Drive Failure

[Bods]

Anyone else had the great experience of there SSD failing, bloody Garbage, i've been running 2nd hand old type hard drives for last 12/15 years maybe longer and think last one that failed on me was crappy old one that was just a 2nd drive

After getting an SSD one in pinball cabs i bought and the speed pc booted with that i bought some, its only few year old, working fine, other day pc just stopped and reboots, when it boots up cant see drive, switch off and back on and its ok again, next day it did same thing, so power off and on boots fine working all day, went to use it at night and it stopped again and ahutdown, again cant see drive, day before when it happened i was going to copy all docs and photos off it but after plugging in a neon sign and tripping rcd, nas box goes off and sometimes when its back up i seem to get network conflicts and you just keep loosing connection so thought i'll have to reboot the nas so before i'd got that working ok the pc shut down again that night, reboots and cant see drive, so switch off to boot up and guess what this time?...

Yeah nothing, cant see it at all, crappy sandisk ssd plus 120gb is screwed

Wont even remember half what was on it and just so busy all time to sorts stuff like backing up stuff which i know i should make time for

Everything i buy new is either crap straight away, starts playing up after short time or is completely screwed in a couple of years most of 2nd hand stuff is fine and when you have things that are 40plus years old still working the new stuff is just so poor

 

[robotech]

Most new stuff is built to cost not for quality
And only to last to just outside of warranty
Even the branded stuff is made in the cheapest factory's
Available

I fixed an old 70s-80s record player the other day all it needed was stripping down and greasing
Can you imagine doing that to a record deck made nowadays in 40 years time

 

[davey d]

I've had loads of SSD drives through the years in many of my computers, from very early generation drives, to the latest top end stuff, and never once have I had a problem with any of them ( I've just jinxed myself now haven't I )

 

[big10p]

I've had loads of SSD drives through the years in many of my computers, from very early generation drives, to the latest top end stuff, and never once have I had a problem with any of them ( I've just jinxed myself now haven't I )

Your points just hit 666, too.

I was also going to post that I've found my sandisk ones reliable, but figured the jinx risk was too great. So I am definitely not saying they are reliable!

 

[miner2049er]

We've had a few failures but mostly from cheap brands so far.

They will eventually fail though, in the way USB drives do. Their storage is not built for perpetual use and writing to their surface damages them.

More expensive drives write to different parts of the drive to prolong life but cheap ones don't and the first bit wears out and it dies.

 

[DaytimeDreamer]

I've had the exact SSD (Sandisk Plus 128gb) fail on me.

I mostly have Samsung SSDs and have had no problems even on the 64GB SLC I've had since 2009 and that drive has been through a lot!

 

[Retroman839]

i have one that just says it is not initialised

iv tried diskpart to initialise it & diskmgmt
but no good just can’t get the damb think to work
but all others been fine

 

[Macro]

Had SSD die at work, shut machine down one evening, next morning no SSD - just toasted (but only OS on it so no great loss)

At home I have more important things on there, so that is why I have Macrium reflect free installed to send the contents to the NAS box once a week (full first Monday of every month, differential every other Monday)

mind you, I also have HD Sentinel installed which tells me when a disk is likely to fail, so I can swop it out before it dies (swopped 2 because of this in the past couple of years, both normal ones!)

 

[penrhos]

We've had loads of SSD's & M.2's fail at work - and when they do, unlike normal HDD's you're totally knackered, no chance of getting anything off them.

We do monthly on-load generator tests so there's a forced power-cut to the building on the last Tuesday of the month, there's nearly always a couple of dead SSD's after that (where people left their PC's on running stuff overnight).

I've been lucky so far at home - just a couple of heavily abused Sandisk & Intel ones are in the "Dead disk" pile, my two main PC's have Crucial and Samsung SSD's installed and so far they've been rock solid. At work they have a small crate full of Sandisk, Intel & whatever Dell uses as OEM that are either faulty or dead.

On the plus point I scrounged some industrial SSD's from an old storage system that had been on in a computer room for 5 years solid and according to the disk-wear counters they still have >=97% life left on them - So I got a dozen 400Gb SAS SSD's for free, pity they're not SATA...

Next storage array is due to be replaced Q3 2022 and 30% of that is full of 2Tb enterprise grade SSD's - provided they're not 520 byte sectors I'll be upgrading my HP DL380p NAS in my homelab with some seriously fast storage (currently has 16 x 1Tb 7.2K SAS drives installed).

I've stuck a small UPS on my QNAP NAS as i had a couple issues after tripping the house RCD a few times over a weekend) so that hasn't had an unexpected shutdown for over a year now..