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I have OCZ drives in a couple of my machines, all of which are at least a year old. I'd heard bad things about OCZ, but I didn't realize their reputation was th

by austinz 13y ago

I have OCZ drives in a couple of my machines, all of which are at least a year old. I'd heard bad things about OCZ, but I didn't realize their reputation was that shot. I'm wondering if I should replace my drives, or if the bathtub curve is in full effect here and I've dodged a bullet... With regards to other brands, I spent some time at the startup where I used to work putting together manufacturing PCs meant for programming serial numbers into devices, assembled from Intel SSDs, cheap Foxconn nettop computers, and the cheapest sticks of RAM we could find. I must have put together around 15 or so of those machines, and although a lot of them failed due to factory conditions/rough handling/power cuts, I don't think any of the Intel drives ever broke down.

dpark 13y ago
> I'm wondering if I should replace my drives, or if the bathtub curve is in full effect here\ You should back them up, but you should do that regardless of the drive manufacturer. Replacing working drives won't likely gain you anything except a lighter wallet. As you mentioned, you're "in the bathtub" now, and a newer drive is probably more likely to fail. Maintain good backups and replace the drives if/when they fail.
TobbenTM 13y ago
Depends on the model of the SSD. Personally, I have had 3 different Revodrives, all of which have failed. The last one I sent in, and asked to get a more reliable disk back, and I got a Vector. So far so good. Keep away from Revodrives.