73 % of SSD owners won't experience malfunction of SSDs – study

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

The original title was "27 % of SSD owners experience malfunction of SSDs – study". fascinating how a title can change what people perceive something.

OP : I have a Samsung 840 pro , works perfectly fine ,i have seen all the videos about testing the SSD's under intense test, never thought the malfunction/failure rate would be 27% or how true that is 

Kroll Ontrack, a leading provider of data recovery services, revealed this week that while there are a lot of people who already take advantage of solid-state drives, many of them also have experienced failures of such drives and data loss. Apparently, the amount of people, who suffered an SSD malfunction is rather high.
 

In the U.K., 27 per cent of respondents of Kroll’s survey had experienced a failure of their SSD and of these 56 per cent experienced data loss as a result. Only 26 per cent were able to recover their data following a failure. It should be noted that many people use older SSDs, which are reaching their end-of-life, therefore, it is not surprising that many of those SSDs are failing. Unfortunately, it is pretty hard to recover data from solid-state drives.
 

“In the case of SSD technology, data resides in a more scattered format on the drive as compared to traditional hard drive media where data is stored more linearly, adding complexity to SSD data recovery scenarios,” said Paul Le Messurier, programme and operations manager at Kroll Ontrack. “Further, although consolidation in the SSD industry is occurring, data layout and organisation on SSD mediums are still not standardised, driving the need for custom recovery solutions based on the specific manufacturer and model of the device.
 

 

Of about two thousand survey respondents, over 75 per cent use SSD technology in laptop and/or mobile devices, 60 per cent in desktop computers and about 20 per cent in server environments. The survey unsurprisingly found that the majority of SSD owners praise performance of solid-state drives and only 10 per cent note reliability and energy-efficiently.
 

While it is clear that SSDs cannot be damaged as easily as traditional hard disk drives, they can failure because of other reasons, including imperfections of controllers and NAND flash management as well as malfunction of memory itself.
 

“SSD technology provides exceptional speed and performance benefits when managing and working within large data environments, and organisations are taking advantage,” said said Mr. Le Messurier. “Despite the many benefits of SSD technology – including reliability – data loss continues to impact SSD devices, just like any other storage device.”

Source : http://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/27-of-ssd-owners-experienced-malfunction-of-ssds-study/

 

[Guest]

I'm keeping my HDD  :wub:

[Paralectic]

The survey's result does not represent anything at all.

[KamiKatze]

Stop buying OCZ SSDs then!

 

My A-DATA SP900 aswell as my new Samsung 850 EVO haven't failed on me yet.

[LukaP]

I cant be bothered to read about their methodology, but i dont know a single person who suffered a failure, much less 27%,so ill assume it flawed

[vorticalbox]

Stop buying OCZ SSDs then!

 

My A-DATA SP900 aswell as my new Samsung 850 EVO haven't failed on me yet.

 vertex 4 owner here, running smooth and fast.

[qwertywarrior]

something wrong here

which gen are we talking about here

pre 2012 ?

 

the reason asus because the most reliable laptops during early 201x was because the use of ssds in their eee Pcs

[Guest]

>know return rates on SSD sales

>can confirm article is a hoax

[Alibaladin]

i bet 90% of these users who arent into tech must have defraged their ssd's causing damage

:lol:

[Sauron]

...compared to what, 90%? of those who have ever owned a hard disk experiencing a failure at some point...

 

And those were probably old models. New ones are much more reliable and with a drastically longer lifespan.

[AxelRantila]

I have a samsung 830-something in my school laptop and 850 Pro in my main rig. No issues so far.

 

And I gotta wonder, if SSDs really has that huge failure rate, wouldn't more or less all manufacturers have been out-of-business right now

 

 

i bet 90% of these users who arent into tech must have defraged their ssd's causing damage

 

Can you even defrag an SSD on Windows?

[Humbug]

And 100% of hard drive users have experienced a failure.

Everything breaks eventually...

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

>know return rates on SSD sales

>can confirm article is a hoax

it's only based of UK also

[Guest]

it's only based of UK also

Drives sold in the US or Australia don't suddenly fail less than those sold in the UK..

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

M4, Agility 3, dual Vertex4, dual 850PRO and triple 840 EVO owner here. Last time I had an SSD problem was in 2011, a bricked Vertex2, which was a common bug with those drives.

My hard disks on the other hand, don't even get me started ...

[Sharkyx1]

In my experience a friend had a Kingston ssd that failed and he doesn't ever want one again, they are over hyped

I've had an ocz agility for 2 years and a Samsung 840 evo

Hugely disappointed in the long term performance bug in the evolution, unless it's correctly fixed in done with Samsung

[LukaP]

Drives sold in the US or Australia don't suddenly fail less than those sold in the UK..

bbut... but it was... a study... those are always correct right?

 

youre back

 

see left

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

Drives sold in the US or Australia don't suddenly fail less than those sold in the UK..

What i meant was, the results of only one set of country is skewed, UK isn't that big at all 

[Humbug]

It's not a hoax. It's just not referring to failure rates. It's referring to the percentage of people who have ever experienced a failure - that figure will always be high because all electronics fail eventually. If you survey GPU owners and ask them if they have ever experienced a GPU failure almost everybody will say yes. Same for HDDs. And same here, but the numbers are lower since SSDs have been in the consumer marks only about 5 years.

[Sakkura]

I am the 73 percent! B)

 

Stop buying OCZ SSDs then!

 

My A-DATA SP900 aswell as my new Samsung 850 EVO haven't failed on me yet.

 

I have an old OCZ Agility 3 running just fine 2½ years down the line. Slow as balls, of course, but it was damn cheap by 2012 standards.

[LukaP]

What i meant was, the results of only one set of country is skewed, UK isn't that big at all 

not really, even if your dataset was all located in the UK that doesnt mean its bad, (this one is though) it just means its cheaper to do, and maybe a little more innacurate (same batches and stuff). but generally you can take one country and get a diverse enough batch of people to have a good data set

[hiyayhi]

And now survey people on if they have had a HDD fail.

 

Personally I have had 3 HHD's fail and 1 SSD.

 

this literally means nothing.

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

not really, even if your dataset was all located in the UK that doesnt mean its bad, (this one is though) it just means its cheaper to do, and maybe a little more innacurate (same batches and stuff). but generally you can take one country and get a diverse enough batch of people to have a good data set

i wonder how the perception of people would change if i change the title to 73% of the SSD owners don't experience malfunctions of ssds 

[LukaP]

i wonder how the perception of people would change if i change the title to 73% of the SSD owners don't experience malfunctions of ssds 

No idea, im not an expert in psychology i just know most people are stupid

[C3DMaX]

starting from 2012, i now have owned 5 ssds in different sizes and from different brands. not a single one has failed me ever.