From reading that blog and it's sister post about "flaky SMART data" on those same Crucial MX500 drives, reminds me that not all SSDs are created equal. Just l

From reading that blog and it's sister post about "flaky SMART data" on those same Crucial MX500 drives, reminds me that not all SSDs are created equal. Just like not all hard drives are created equal. My previous job involved a decade running 10 cabinets of servers an hour away with very little manpower: we eventually came to find that IBM/HGST drives were a lot more reliable than others. We also evaluated some early SSDs, and they were terribly unreliable. We eventually settled on the Intel drives and they were superb. My new job we've been using mostly Intel and Samsung Pro drives, they work great. But Dell sent us a server with some "enterprise SSDs" in it, that we eventually found were Plextor drives. Those things were terrible. We replaced them immediately with Intel, but used some of the Plextor drives and had all of them fail within a year. I'd put the Intel 64GB SLC drives from our 7 year old database server in a system before I'd put one of those brand new "enterprise" Plextor drives in. I love Crucial, I buy a lot of RAM from them, but I'm skeptical of switching to other brands of SSDs. The more experience I have, the more conservative I get with systems that matter.