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I've had another one (2.5") in my Macbook since early january. No problems either.
Performance might have degraded, but not that I've noticed.
I'm now back to good old hard drives, sure it's WAY slower but the current state of SSDs seemed to be a bit too unreliable.
One is my boot drive, and one is my media drive. SMART reports the boot drive has 78% of its erases left, and the media drive 100% (mostly static data). ~20% erases down after 16 months means if the wear leveling works out, my drive should last another 5 years.
My usage is quite normal - coding work doesn't do very many heavy writes. I have 8 GB RAM, so the swap file doesn't see much usage, but instead there's 8 GB of hibernate file writes whenever I put my laptop to sleep (a couple times a day). Also, there's some background process that hits the drive with ~100 KB of writes every couple of seconds.
I had a Super Talent (UltraDrive GX) fail after 2 days and 2 different OCZ Vertex 2 fail each after about 3 months. All of them failed in my trusty MacBook Pro. I'm now back to good old hard drives, sure it's WAY slower but the current state of SSDs seemed to be a bit too unreliable.
The first few failures I wanted to chalk up to SSDs being flaky or my being sent refurb drives, but given that I had so many in the same machine and no problems in any other desktops and laptops I tested SSDs with, I just want to blame the machine.
I then bought a 240GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro and put it in the same MBP. It's been running fine for about eight months now.
On my 3rd X25-M. First was a g1 that ceased to be recognized by the OS as a device after 9months, the second was a g2 that had much degraded performance and then started showing many errors, corrupt data and the like so I stopped using it. Just prior it was in a RAID 0 array for a year with another x25m g2 that I pulled apart after degraded perf and had a feeling something like this would happen.I now have a single x…
It wasn't clear to me that this was a software limitation...
Also had no problems whatsoever with my Intel X-25M, over 1.5 years old now. I've heard a lot of horror stories about other manufacturers, but never met another Intel user who had problems. Supposedly OCZ has gotten much better quality wise, though there are lots of bad reviews for those drives on newegg.
A vertex2 or vertexLE is a completely different beast than a vertex1.
Yes, due to firmware bugs.
I've had an OCZ Vertex for a couple of years now (I got it a few months after they came out), and it's been fantastic ever since. I've also got two Intel 60GB SSDs in RAID0 in my laptop, which have worked flawlessly since day 1. However, I purchased an OCZ Vertex 2 for my parents a few months ago as they were building a new computer. About 2 months went by, then one day -- boom -- computer won't boot anymore. I go ov…
I haven't noticed much of a difference other than the occasional instance of leaving the laptop on and without power (no autosleep for me).
Dropbox+svn/git make sure I don't lose any code.
I had been under the impression that when SSD drives die, write operations start failing but existing data is still readable. Is this wrong?