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I recently had to replace an SSD that was only 3 years old; it's dead-dead, as in, slowed down one day and then wouldn't boot. I've never had an HDD die this fa

I recently had to replace an SSD that was only 3 years old; it's dead-dead, as in, slowed down one day and then wouldn't boot. I've never had an HDD die this fast in my life. I know this is only one example but I'm curious if anyone else has a similar experience.

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sleepybrett 4y ago
Have a virtual memory pagefile on it?
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gtop3 4y ago
Here's a pretty good document about HDD life expectancy. Depending on the model HDDs can have a fail rate of up to 12% in 3 years. I'm unsure how many drives you've used, or how much of a workload you put them through, but I wouldn't assume SSDs are significantly more reliable than HDDs based on one failed drive. [0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/
Dalewyn 4y ago
SSDs are a consumable, so depending on how much writing you do per day to it you can run it down pretty quickly. The vast majority of people never write enough for this to become a problem, though.
Dylan16807 4y ago
> it's dead-dead, as in, slowed down one day and then wouldn't boot Did you double check if the files could be read by another system? A drive that goes read-only will also fail to boot, I think.
johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Had a brand new Seagate 2.5" hard drive fail after ~60 days of laptop use, back in 2010. I was a reasonably heavy desktop user, but scarcely a stress-tester, and I didn't have any memorable drop incident or accident that'd explain the failure, either (I was pretty careful with my machines). Retailer or manufacturer, I can't recall, replaced the drive (with a refurb) and I was able to recover some of the most important new data off the old drive as it failed, but it left me pretty unhappy. still have a few mis-named files deep in my personal directories, 2 PCs and 3 Mac migrations later.

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sleepybrett 4y ago

Have a virtual memory pagefile on it?

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gtop3 4y ago

Here's a pretty good document about HDD life expectancy. Depending on the model HDDs can have a fail rate of up to 12% in 3 years. I'm unsure how many drives you've used, or how much of a workload you put them through, but I wouldn't assume SSDs are significantly more reliable than HDDs based on one failed drive. [0] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/

Dalewyn 4y ago

SSDs are a consumable, so depending on how much writing you do per day to it you can run it down pretty quickly. The vast majority of people never write enough for this to become a problem, though.

Dylan16807 4y ago

> it's dead-dead, as in, slowed down one day and then wouldn't boot Did you double check if the files could be read by another system? A drive that goes read-only will also fail to boot, I think.

johncalvinyoung 4y ago

Had a brand new Seagate 2.5" hard drive fail after ~60 days of laptop use, back in 2010. I was a reasonably heavy desktop user, but scarcely a stress-tester, and I didn't have any memorable drop incident or accident that'd explain the failure, either (I was pretty careful with my machines). Retailer or manufacturer, I can't recall, replaced the drive (with a refurb) and I was able to recover some of the most important new data off the old drive as it failed, but it left me pretty unhappy. still have a few mis-named files deep in my personal directories, 2 PCs and 3 Mac migrations later.