Reliable Ssd?

[TheSuspect]

I've never owned/used an ssd, and I'm kinda paranoid because I'm not really up to date with the best and worst ssds, what happens when an ssd fails etc. Apparently Intel ssds are pretty reliable. If so, should I go with them?

 

Follow up question, are HyperX Fury ssds reliable at all?

[Dresta]

Just now, TheSuspect said:

I've never owned/used an ssd, and I'm kinda paranoid because I'm not really up to date with the best and worst ssds, what happens when an ssd fails etc. Apparently Intel ssds are pretty reliable. If so, should I go with them?

 

Follow up question, are HyperX Fury ssds reliable at all?

There is not such thing as "reliable" and if there is it does not make sense,there are better made SSD's and worse made SSD's,there are faster SSD's and slower SSD's,the word "reliable" only counts in on the company name and both Intel and Kingston are both reliable as companies

[Guest]

3 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

I've never owned/used an ssd, and I'm kinda paranoid because I'm not really up to date with the best and worst ssds, what happens when an ssd fails etc. Apparently Intel ssds are pretty reliable. If so, should I go with them?

 

Follow up question, are HyperX Fury ssds reliable at all?

Yeah Intel SSDs are extremely reliable. They are what I'm going with to replace my shitty Corsair SSD. 

 

Samsung has some interesting SSDs as well, though I'm not sure of their reliability. They have some of the fastest SSDs on the market, so they are definitely worth having a look at. 

 

What type of form factor are you looking for? PCIe, SATA III, M.2? etc...

[pwn_intended]

SSD's have come a long way in the last few years. I have found them to be extremely reliable, more so than mechanical drives even. However, when they fail, everything is gone, unlike a mech drive where you can generally recover some things.

 

As far as brands go, Intel (IMHO) is the most reliable, has the best warranty, but also generally costs considerably more. The Samsung's, and HyperX's are quite good (though I don't have any experience with these specific ones) and I have heard good things about Adata ones as well. Basically as long as you don't go with a Kingston v300 series, you're pretty golden.

[TheSuspect]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

- However, when they fail, everything is gone

 

- Basically as long as you don't go with a Kingston v300 series, you're pretty golden.

1. I've heard of a thing called "read only mode". What exactly is it? Isn't that a sort of message that your ssd is giving up and you can quickly recover?

 

2. Why exactly...

[roylapoutre]

2 hours ago, linushellskitchentips said:

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Really depends on what you're talking about... In terms of lifespan, modern SSDs are (generally) way better than HDDs ! At least from my experience and from a lot of tests I saw on the internet. But of course, if you keep an SSD long enough to see it die, you might lose everything. But who keeps personal data on an SSD ? I only have my OS and games on my SSD, nothing that can't be recovered.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

1. I've heard of a thing called "read only mode". What exactly is it? Isn't that a sort of message that your ssd is giving up and you can quickly recover?

 

2. Why exactly...

Yeah, "read only mode" is basically when it's dead. I hit that by accident when I copied a huge file to my SSD and that basically killed it. It did some writing in the OS but upon restarting it just undid all of the changes. 

[ShadowCaptain]

10 minutes ago, TheSuspect said:

I've never owned/used an ssd, and I'm kinda paranoid because I'm not really up to date with the best and worst ssds, what happens when an ssd fails etc. Apparently Intel ssds are pretty reliable. If so, should I go with them?

 

Follow up question, are HyperX Fury ssds reliable at all?

 

They are very reliable, physically hard to damage, and in terms of life span generally last hundreds of TB of writes, if not PB of write

 

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

[pwn_intended]

2 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

1. I've heard of a thing called "read only mode". What exactly is it? Isn't that a sort of message that your ssd is giving up and you can quickly recover?

 

2. Why exactly...

Some manufacturers enable this mode that once the drive reaches a stupid amount of read/write cycles, it will lok itself to read only mode in order to not die altogether so you can retrieve data. I totally back this feature as the number of cycles will generally make the SSD outlive your system and the second one you put it into as well.

2 hours ago, linushellskitchentips said:

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This statement was true 5 years ago without any doubt. Nowadays, not so much.

[TheSuspect]

Just now, IAmLamp said:

Yeah, "read only mode" is basically when it's dead. I hit that by accident when I copied a huge file to my SSD and that basically killed it. It did some writing in the OS but upon restarting it just undid all of the changes. 

If it's in read only mode, what can you do?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

If it's in read only mode, what can you do?

Nothing really, that's basically the end of the SSD's life. You're only truly able to really read from the SSD and unable to write to it. 

[ShadowCaptain]

2 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

If it's in read only mode, what can you do?

Nothing

 

You should have a data backup anyway

2 hours ago, linushellskitchentips said:

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no its not read the article, they will normally last longer than most people could ever use them, 

[TheSuspect]

Just now, ShadowCaptain said:

Nothing

 

You should have a data backup anyway

no its not read the article, they will normally last longer than most people could ever use them, 

 

Just now, IAmLamp said:

Nothing really, that's basically the end of the SSD's life. You're only truly able to really read from the SSD and unable to write to it. 

Let me get this straight. Once the Ssd reaches read only mode, it's useless? Is there no way to backup after it's hit this state? If so, is there a way to know when this is coming? 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, TheSuspect said:

 

Let me get this straight. Once the Ssd reaches read only mode, it's useless? Is there no way to backup after it's hit this state? If so, is there a way to know when this is coming? 

Yes, there is a way to know when it's coming. SSDs, like HDDs, also show signs of S.M.A.R.T. status. These are basically signs to show when the drive is dying. Your system will prompt you of these signs. 

 

Once it hits the "read only mode", you should be able to get some information off of it, but you will be unable to truly write to it. 

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, TheSuspect said:

 

Let me get this straight. Once the Ssd reaches read only mode, it's useless? Is there no way to backup after it's hit this state? If so, is there a way to know when this is coming? 

 

Just now, IAmLamp said:

Yes, there is a way to know when it's coming. SSDs, like HDDs, also show signs of S.M.A.R.T. status. These are basically signs to show when the drive is dying. Your system will prompt you of these signs. 

Yep SMART

 

and you should have a daily/ weekly backup schedule anyway

[TheSuspect]

1 minute ago, ShadowCaptain said:

and you should have a daily/ weekly backup schedule anyway

Any recommendations of daily/weekly backup site/software?

[ShadowCaptain]

1 minute ago, TheSuspect said:

Any recommendations of daily/weekly backup site/software?

I use the built in windows one and back up to my server which is another windows PC running 2012 essentials server with 4 drives in raid - this then backs up to amazon cloud

 

there are tons of cloud storage solutions

 

or get a cheap external drive or a cheap NAS ideally, some even come with good software, or you can use windows backup or something like achronis