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I bought 5 of these less than two years ago, though they were the 500 GB model. Every single one of them has failed - some within 45 days and just outside the return period. The last one, which I honestly forgot was still running and thought I'd replaced, failed this morning.

These SSDs are absolute garbage and their warranty replacements are a joke (read: you're outta luck, Chuck). Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me 6 times, well, shame one me for buying them again, I guess. lol. I had one fail prior to this batch, but assumed it was an oddball.

Pro tip: Never buy Silicon Power (SP) SSDs. I you have any in use, make sure you have backups running daily and that you check those backups every so often.

Seems like the 3v3 regulator is what goes out on these, but I'm not going to bother trying to repair it since I've got backups.

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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 7 points 9 months ago (20 children)

What is a recommended SSD nowadays? I don't really have a criteria other than avoiding the noise - sata works well enough for me.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I've been buying Samsung (both SATA and NVMe), though I'm sure someone will tell me they went to crap too. At least the ones I have are on track to hit the 3 year mark.

For less critical things, I've used PNY pretty successfully (haven't hit 2 years yet, but haven't had any failures either). They're less expensive, and I usually stick to the 120-240 GB ones (basically they're boot drives)

[–] vintageballs@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I still have the very first SSD I ever bought, a 120GB Samsung 830 that is well over 10 years old. It is the OS drive in my server and thus running 24/7. No errors yet.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 2 points 9 months ago

Splurged some crazy money on a Crucial MX 256GB, 320€ IIRC, I still think about it sometimes but god what an upgrade :-)

After years as my boot device it spent running lots of familys PCs witbout a hiccup, now it's retired as a small extra ssd in a linux box.

I remember there were single cells, double now triple and quadruple, and back in the day single wete considered the best, IDK what's the story today.

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