The good news is that if you had one fail a year ago then it would be almost impossible to replace it with the same model. They change the designs on about a 6 month cycle. But I know, physiologically if a brand X fails you want to buy brand Y to replace it even with no technical justification.
In generall SSD you buy today should outlast any hard drive you buy today. On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Kurt Jacobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, I was not attempting a full blown statistical comparison on the > reliability of the SSDs as offed by the various manufacturers. I was simply > noting that, like John, I have had trouble with the particular 128GB Intel > SSDs shipped with the T410s, and have not had trouble with any of the > replacements, regardless of brand. > > As I noted before, of all our T410s, my personal machine has the last > standing original issue SSD. Since my sample size is too small to prove > anything, does that mean I should rely on the SSD that has a marked history > of failing just as much as the ones that don't? No of course not, that > would be exceedingly foolish. So that is why when I travel I use as my > primary drive one of those that does not have a history of failing AND take > along the remaining Intel SSD AND a Bootable USB just in case. > > Cheers, > Kurt > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Chris Albertson < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > You sample space is to small. You can't say if Samsung is better then > IBM > > because you've only tested one or two of each type. > > > > Kind of like tossing a coin once. You conclude that "the Nickel landed > > tails up but my dime landed heads up. So if you prefer heads I'd say you > > should use dimes." > > > > Seriously. Remember that statistics class where they talked about > > confidence levels? You to need to test hundreds of drives before you can > > say anything about their reliability. > > > > But we can read about tests of thousand of hard disk drives. Backblaze > > owns and uses about 10,000 disk drives in their data center and publish > > what they find every quarter. > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/ > > > > Backblaze is not yet using SSDs but today almost all web hosting > companies > > are using SSD. But I can't find published data, > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Chris Albertson < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kurt Jacobson < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> Interesting John. What ThinkPad do you have? I have had a couple of > the > > >> 128gb SSDs in our T410s fail, some after less than a year. I have been > > >> replacing them with Samsung or Kingston SSDs. I have not had problems > > with > > >> either. The original were Intel, which I would think would be decent, > > but I > > >> guess not. > > -- > > > > Chris Albertson > > Redondo Beach, California > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
