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:doh: well I just had a osz sad drive fail, no reason :doh:

Poll Results: Do you think SSD are stable enough to not backup daily when you have data changing daily because it can fail any time with total data loss (we are talking laptops not servers) this includes home users who just added a new set of baby pictures to there notbook to make room on there memory card knowing when they get home it could be gone.

 
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post #1 of 4
6/15/12 at 1:26pm
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other than its unstable technology for data integrity I like SSD for the spped but I will never trust it as a data storage device
rather it is good for access speed..
IE for OS and large file editing and access...
but mirror the sad so its fast but reliable..

I lost only a days worth of data....
now all SSD Drives are mirrored to spinning drives...
I can't send the drive in for testing as it had unencrypted company data and IP data....
I think I'm done with osz....
maybe bad one but can't risk that kind of loss...

this is not a bash against OSZ as i dont know why the drive failed but its got work on it so it cant go in.. and no it was not dropped and did not suffer any other physical or electrical damage.
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post #2 of 4
6/15/12 at 1:36pm
Sorry to hear about the problem, I personally feel that failure does happen on SSDs and non-SSDs. Don't use enough OCZ SSDs to tell you what I think about them

cheers ...
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post #3 of 4
6/15/12 at 1:43pm
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LOL i forgot to add. i started working on pcs when i was 8 with my first desktop and had a compaq portable not long after my first laptop in 92 (12 years old) toshiba 1200 (i think) and did full time for a while as teen/early adult then kept my hands in it enough to keep up to date.. (wich is still alot)

so i have seen thousands of drives and had failures. allot lower fail rate than SSD.

within that at least when a plater drive failes and its just cause board or heads fail i can easily replace and get most to all data off drive (by changing board or heads or moving platters to differnt drive if motor is bad (must make sure same board and parts in new drive or spare parts drive)

but with SSD i cant pop a chip off and put on differnt board to get data off..

i have never seen a platter drive that had electronic parts failure that i couldnt get data off. (not counting huge surges during spining)
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post #4 of 4
6/15/12 at 3:27pm
Honestly, OCZ has a pretty bad track record for reliability. SSDs from companies such as Intel and Samsung are 3-4 times as reliable as OCZ, based on failure rates. I would not necessarily give up on the technology, but I'd probably suggest a different brand.

Good SSDs have failure rates lower than hard drives (sometimes much lower), although you're right that it's more complicated, or at least you need different equipment, to retrieve data from dead SSDs.
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