this is the trouble with ssds, they just die. but they're fast before they do. but it's ok because everyone has backups right? i know i do, and raid1 just incase.
on a side note, glad i paid the extra cost for the 840 pro!
on a side note, glad i paid the extra cost for the 840 pro!
In any case, all the drives so far indicated they were destined to keel over via the SMART attributes long before it actually happened... Certainly long enough to buy a new drive and copy all the data, even for the less reliable TLC drive.
In fact even under a heavy workstation load you'd have enough time to save up money working a minimum wage part-time job, order the SSD when it goes on sale, wait for it to arrive via ground shipping, forget that you need an external SATA adapter, save up for that, order it, wait for shipping, then copy the data.
My original Intel X25-M G2, which I used for several years in my daily workstation, had around 4 TB total writes before I replaced it. That's two orders of magnitude lower than the apparent limit for these drives.
That's a really interesting metric. Can we call that the xenadu factor?
As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s
My take away was that SSDs are somewhat easy to predict failure on. I'd take predictable failure over unpredictable any day.
not that this is a rule, i've seen hdds fail instantly for no reason as well, and flash media throw a massive wobbler but still be recoverable. but in my experience this is not the normal behaviour.
but who cares as long as you have backups and a contingency plan?
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