First bad ssd drive

[Galdorf]

I have sold about 100 ssd not a single one has been brought back or have gone bad a new customer dropped off machine with a SPCC ssd after testing it has quite a few bad sector never heard of SPCC sounds like a cheap Chinese brand.
I don't sell anything but top brands since buying cheap ssd is not really a good idea either Samsung or Intel.
Looks like a system someone bought parts for online and assembled it as it has no stickers or brand.

 

[Porthos]

SPCC ssd after testing it has quite a few bad sector never heard of SPCC

That is Silicon Power. I have never had issues with them.

 

[sapphirescales]

That is Silicon Power. I have never had issues with them.

I deployed 100 or so of them out in the wild as a test. I've seen over a dozen come back. Never again.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Haven't seen that brand.
Well over a thousand Crucials deployed...have 2 which we replaced, but I the drives still seem good, I think the end user just had OS corruption.
Had a large healthcare clients with 75 or so laptops with Samsungs....had 3 maybe 4 of those go bad.

 

[Sky-Knight]

I've used Intel, Samsung, and WD Blue SSDs, they all have the usual 4% failure rate associated with any electronics according to the stats. But I couldn't even tell you how many SSDs I've installed and used over the last 10 years, but only 4 or 5 of them of any of the above brands went "bad".

My only problem with SSDs is that the "bad" has the potential to not be dead, but intermittently bad like RAM does, and we don't have the tools to test for this. So you wind up with a system that works fine, right up until it doesn't... N&P later it seems OK again... and then months, or in one case a bit more than a year later the thing finally dies.

But again, it's 4 drives in my service umbrella... What do you want? Perfection?

 

[Diggs]

I've seen an ancient Samsung and Crucial SSD failure and a relatively recent SanDisk 1TB Plus (their cheapie model line) that the rep told me they no longer make but that I still see on Ebay. After their software (Dashboard) examined the 1TB SSD it said it was bad I did a secure erase on it and then it said it was good(?). Hmmm....

 

[thecomputerguy]

I've sold a ton of SSD's. When I first started selling them they were quite a bit more expensive than they are now so I tried to cheap out and go with Mushkin. I stopped using them a LONG time ago when Samsung SSD's started dropping in price and around that time I had 2 of those Mushkins die, that was probably 3 years ago. I've only been using Samsung for about 4 years now and I haven't had a single one die. I'm starting to replace systems that still run great with those original Samsing 850EVO 250GB SSD's.

I just yank those SSD's and use them for computer images since it's so quick to get an image onto them.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

...and go with Mushkin..

Man I haven't heard that name in like.over 20 years.
Back in the Win3/Win9X days....working for a ComputerLand franchise....they used to get that brand a lot. And Centon...those seemed to be the more common brand in the memory cabinet they had there.

 

[frase]

I had a Kingston fail once - never purchased them again. I either get WD or Crucial

 

[brandonkick]

Have used Adata, silicon power, samsung, intel, crucial, sandisk and western digital blue

Have yet to have a single failure, from any brand. Crucial / samsung the majority... maybe 50% but the other 50% more distributed.

Probably only closing in on 100 SSD's I've put out into the wild though.

 

[fincoder]

I saw the first budget Kingston SSD fail last week, just out of the 3 year warranty period. The symptom was Windows startup taking forever (not completing). Surprising I could still clone using HDD Super Clone in linux, then recover all data with fabs except it couldn't access the registry.

I've seen Intel drives fail the most (no longer sell them) and a few Crucial, one Samsung.

I've been selling lots of TeamGroup SSDs in the last year, no failures yet even though they're a budget brand. I also sell Samsung Evo or WD Blue as premium options.

 

[Diggs]

I wonder if SSD failure rates are going down over time the way hard drives have done. Better processes, inspection, testing, experience and history in manufacturing.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

I use SanDisks and haven't had a single one fail, yet!

I've only ever seen two dead ones, they were both Kingston.

 

[GTP]

Sold many TeamGroup, Kingston, Samsung, Silicon Power, WD (Green and Blue) Crucial, Intel, Patriot, Adata and whatever else is "best price" at the time.
Even a few from The Happy Apple Blossom Sunshine Rainbow company of Taiwan.
Only failure so far has been OCZ/Toshiba.

 

[wavey]

I must have installed 100+ SSDs, mainly ADATA, some Kingston and a couple of Maxtor.
I've got my 1st with a problem on the bench now, Adata SU650 480Gb.
Client said the laptop was giving a HDD error on boot and running very slowly.
I'm not getting any warning but G-Smart tells me: Reallocated Sector Count = 360
So I run Adata SSD Toolbox which gives me: Reallocated Sector count = 168 (after trim)
It's working fine but, of course, I'll swap it out.

 

[Big Jim]

Had 2 issues here, and both of those are not 100% down to the SSD
a refurb system that I sent out with a 2nd hand Intel SSD, you guys on here advised given the symptoms that it was likely the SSD, i replaced that drive over 3 months ago and haven't heard back since.

2nd one was a Brand new lenovo tower that came in with corrupted Windows install (Raw drive) after about 15 months, reinstalled windows sent it back out and a little ove 12 months later same thing happened again, advised the customer to replace the SSD and we'll see how that one pans out (this one was an NVME SSD)

 

[Diggs]

Man I haven't heard that name in like.over 20 years.

I hadn't either and now I see it popping up again for inexpensive high-speed SSD M2 drives -

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