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Watch out. My 80 gig Intel X25m just crapped out on me. All data gone. Lost about a weeks worth of data (I now back up more often). However I bought a 160gig I
by jpcx01 18y ago
Watch out. My 80 gig Intel X25m just crapped out on me. All data gone. Lost about a weeks worth of data (I now back up more often).
However I bought a 160gig Intel X25m in its place. Going back to a spinning disk was unacceptable (almost 10x slower). The drive f*$&ing rocks, even if it is unreliable (hopefully that was a fluke)
- gb 18y agoThat's worrying, I thought one of the advantages of SSDs is they're supposed to fail gradually...
- Andys 18y agoThanks for the data point. In theory Intel SSDs should fail about as often as a motherboard or stick of RAM, excluding the graceful failure you talk about. The graceful failing is where there are no free sectors left for wear levelling or bad block remapping. When it fails this way you should still be able to read your data off it. EDIT: I've just received an anecdotal comment from a friend who works at Intel that high temperatures affect MLC flash life rapidly in an negative way. I can't find any data to back this up.