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Since when has Intel been hit equally?

zokier 11y ago
The "8MB bug" (https://communities.intel.com/thread/24205 https://communities.intel.com/thread/24205) was the most notorious, but I remember also some bricked Intel SSDs too.
- drzaiusapelord 11y ago
  Ignoring that, Intel is rock solid. The larger issue isn't incompetents making SSDs, but SSDs being sold soley on performance. Intel has always been a step or two behind the performance game but manages to deliver some really reliable SSD's. I have yet to see a consumer Intel fail, which is incredible as that kind of reliability, outside of the super expensive PCIe cards is unheard of. I think we're a few more years of shaking out this industry and leaving behind all the growing pains. No idea who will be left standing, but I suspect Intel will probably be around.
  - pja 11y ago
    I managed to brick an Intel 320 last week. Going to see if they’ll replace it under warranty - those devices were upgraded to a 5 years so it should still be covered. (Apparently the drive really didn’t like being issued with an 'hdparm --security-set-pass X /dev/sdb' command. I was intending to do a secure wipe, for which the password setting is a pre-requisite, but the drive never came back from setting the password. After that it just returned junk data to any command, including 'hdparm -I /dev/sdb' & failed the power-on BIOS SMART test.)
whyoh 11y ago
For example, the Intel 520 and 530 series have known issues. Besides the lower performance after some amount of writes, they also tend to randomly "disappear" from the system, which is much worse. Google it, it should be easy to find many related topics. I don't know if this only affects the SATA SSDs or not, but it happens a lot. (BTW, the random disappearing also affects some other SSDs from other brands.)
- wtallis 11y ago
  The Intel SSD 520 and 530 use SandForce controllers, so Intel started with a big mess and spent months trying to clean it up before shipping the drives. Clearly they missed a few bugs, and they couldn't work around every mistake and design limitation in the controller's hardware. Intel's in-house designs have an extremely good track record. I'm only aware of two major bugs.
  - wyldfire 11y ago
    We saw some performance issues with Intel's DC S3500 firmware. But they were able to fix them without too much hassle.

The "8MB bug" (https://communities.intel.com/thread/24205 https://communities.intel.com/thread/24205) was the most notorious, but I remember also some bricked Intel SSDs too.

drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Ignoring that, Intel is rock solid. The larger issue isn't incompetents making SSDs, but SSDs being sold soley on performance. Intel has always been a step or two behind the performance game but manages to deliver some really reliable SSD's. I have yet to see a consumer Intel fail, which is incredible as that kind of reliability, outside of the super expensive PCIe cards is unheard of. I think we're a few more years of shaking out this industry and leaving behind all the growing pains. No idea who will be left standing, but I suspect Intel will probably be around.
- pja 11y ago
  I managed to brick an Intel 320 last week. Going to see if they’ll replace it under warranty - those devices were upgraded to a 5 years so it should still be covered. (Apparently the drive really didn’t like being issued with an 'hdparm --security-set-pass X /dev/sdb' command. I was intending to do a secure wipe, for which the password setting is a pre-requisite, but the drive never came back from setting the password. After that it just returned junk data to any command, including 'hdparm -I /dev/sdb' & failed the power-on BIOS SMART test.)

whyoh 11y ago

For example, the Intel 520 and 530 series have known issues. Besides the lower performance after some amount of writes, they also tend to randomly "disappear" from the system, which is much worse. Google it, it should be easy to find many related topics. I don't know if this only affects the SATA SSDs or not, but it happens a lot. (BTW, the random disappearing also affects some other SSDs from other brands.)

wtallis 11y ago
The Intel SSD 520 and 530 use SandForce controllers, so Intel started with a big mess and spent months trying to clean it up before shipping the drives. Clearly they missed a few bugs, and they couldn't work around every mistake and design limitation in the controller's hardware. Intel's in-house designs have an extremely good track record. I'm only aware of two major bugs.
- wyldfire 11y ago
  We saw some performance issues with Intel's DC S3500 firmware. But they were able to fix them without too much hassle.