My advice is expect them to die, and
frequently. Most I've gotten out of one is just under 2 years,
most 4mo-1yr.
I do things like raid (because they *do* die), crypto, and lvm on them, but spend careful time to align things, yet they still die. I've gotten most longevity out of samsung disks so far, using a 840 pro disk over a year (in a work pc, now sitting on a shelf) and a pair of 850 evo msata's in my dell in raid1/luks/lvm config I do on everything happily (so far) after a 1.5yr. My last to die was a 512gb crucial m100, wasn't happy to see some $350 fly out the window after 4 months. Yeah, I was going to rma, and never bothered as I'm sure they're just going to send me another refurb to burn out even quicker. I just sort of scratched crucial from my "will ever buy again" list, as their support channel was painful (website and humans) to boot. The 2yr disk was an adata pro disk, that started getting flaky around that 2yr period. I tried updating firmware as smart status didn't indicate it going, and rather their piece o' crap firmware update utility (for linux even) bricked it hard. Thanks guys, obviously a windoze dev ported it with extensive q/a. I relegated it's twin as a travel disk rarely used now. -mb On 06/23/2015 12:00 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: OK, the hard drive on my windows box is getting old, and every now and then during startup, I hear a short burst of "chattering"......no such problem on my Linux laptop, but it does not get as much use, either... |
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