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"How Reliable are SSDs?"
On 21/02/2019 5:19 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"How Reliable are SSDs?" Â*Â*Â* https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/ I used to also think SSD's are more reliable than HDD's, but recently I've had nothing but trouble with a particular brand of SSD, the Adata SU630 series is absolutely crap. I've already had to return 3 of them, and I'm getting ready to return my 4th. Thank god I got good backups! They are good about exchanging their products, but I doubt that they've even noticed that I've returned 4 of their products already under warranty. They don't even ask questions, just take your RMA order. They must be using the worst Flashram in the world, from the reject pile of every manufacturer around. I've had enough, and I'm going to replace with a WD SSD now, but I will get the latest replacement and probably put it into an external case for occasional large storage requirements that don't need to be on all of the time. Yousuf Khan -- Sent from Giganews on Thunderbird on my Toshiba laptop |
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"How Reliable are SSDs?"
Yousuf Khan wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: "How Reliable are SSDs?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/ I used to also think SSD's are more reliable than HDD's, but recently I've had nothing but trouble with a particular brand of SSD, the Adata SU630 series is absolutely crap. I've already had to return 3 of them, and I'm getting ready to return my 4th. Thank god I got good backups! They are good about exchanging their products, but I doubt that they've even noticed that I've returned 4 of their products already under warranty. They don't even ask questions, just take your RMA order. They must be using the worst Flashram in the world, from the reject pile of every manufacturer around. I've had enough, and I'm going to replace with a WD SSD now, but I will get the latest replacement and probably put it into an external case for occasional large storage requirements that don't need to be on all of the time. I was expecting the article to provide some actual statistics, especially since the author was Backblaze. Instead it was just a bunch of general information with no statistics at all. Pretty useless since it never does address how reliable are SSDs as experienced from actual use in their data centers. However, Backblaze doesn't use SSDs for storage of customer data, just for a few boot drives or as frontend servers, like database servers. They don't have many to provide any statistics, so they won't have any statistics to report. Yet that article is just generalized fluff about SSDs versus HDDs. You cannot draw many conclusions from it, and nothing substantial regarding reliability. If you want to increase the lifespan (aka endurance) of an SSD, increase its overprovisioning. That allocates more reserved space to accomodate failed memory blocks that will happen eventually. You lose some capacity for the unallocated space on the SSD for more (well, any) overprovisioning, but if you're getting tight on space (and aren't collecting tons of garbage files or data that could be stored elsewhere like on a cheaper HDD) then you really should get higher or more drives. Most consumers look at the marketing data, like capacity. Important is the read and write speed (with writes being slower than reads because of the procedure to do writes). I see the same for most buyers of USB thumb flash drives: they go for capacity without ever investigating how fast (or how slow) they are, but then many makers don't publish those specs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15wN8JC2L4 https://www.seagate.com/tech-insight...its-master-ti/ https://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/overprovisioning I think the typical overprovisioning is 10% of the rated capacity of the SSD, but I think the amount varies by capacity with 10% used for all consumer-grade drives over some threshold in capacity. The server-grade SSDs usually have 20% overprovisioning, and that's what I use, too, although my SSDs don't get anywhere the volume of writes that business use would encounter. I've stuck with Samsung for SSDs: both as encased drives for internal use connected to power and SATA cables from the motherboard (Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 250 GB SATA-3, bought April 2016) used in my prior Win7 box, and for m.2 drives into sockets on the mobo (Samsung 970 Pro M.2/2280 1 TB Gen3 NVMe PCI 2-bit MLC, bought April 2019) used in my latest build (Win10). Never had any problems with those. I might use Crucial (who doesn't make anything, but has good specs with the actual plants) or Crucial (their high end products). |
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"How Reliable are SSDs?"
On 05/04/2020 2:50 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
I was expecting the article to provide some actual statistics, especially since the author was Backblaze. Instead it was just a bunch of general information with no statistics at all. Pretty useless since it never does address how reliable are SSDs as experienced from actual use in their data centers. However, Backblaze doesn't use SSDs for storage of customer data, just for a few boot drives or as frontend servers, like database servers. They don't have many to provide any statistics, so they won't have any statistics to report. Yet that article is just generalized fluff about SSDs versus HDDs. You cannot draw many conclusions from it, and nothing substantial regarding reliability. Yeah, I agree, it's just an introductory piece on what an SSD is, and that's all. Plenty of those articles already. If you want to increase the lifespan (aka endurance) of an SSD, increase its overprovisioning. That allocates more reserved space to accomodate failed memory blocks that will happen eventually. You lose some capacity for the unallocated space on the SSD for more (well, any) overprovisioning, but if you're getting tight on space (and aren't collecting tons of garbage files or data that could be stored elsewhere like on a cheaper HDD) then you really should get higher or more drives. What a really useful metric for SSD's would be is what is their proper operating temperatures? They are much higher than HDD's, but how much over are they? Each manufacturer seems to have its own ideas, and then many of them don't even release that info. The aforementioned crap that I've been having so much trouble with, the Adata SU600-series, seem to overheat at in their 50's and 60's, and I'm finding that it's regularly operating at the mid-50's! I don't officially know that their limit is the 50's/60's, that's just what I've discovered over a couple of years of returning them over and over again. Adata don't release their own specs about this, probably because they know that most of their drives regularly operate above this level, which would result in even more returns when worried owners see it running that high. Yousuf Khan -- Sent from Giganews on Thunderbird on my Toshiba laptop |
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