Buyer beware: some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Hmm. My experience of various SSD's over the past decade has not been entirely positive. They seem great in the short term for running an OS, improved startup times and quick loading of games, apps, plugins, etc. But they seem to die quickly or just grind to a halt. SSD still has a long way to go in terms of being able to trust it for mass storage or for reliability and longevity.

[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

How long do they typically last? My computer is 10 or 11 years old this year, and still works fine with a normal hard drive.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

A good few years maybe, they have more a limit of read/write usage than idle shelf life. I had a couple that lasted around 2-3 years, one I'm using now as primary OS drive is ul to about 5 but is struggling, it won't last the year.

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A long-ass time. You won't likely ever have a failure, unless it dies in the first month.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's gone 6 months in the new windows machine, but I only use that for steam games. Not a life of constant struggle over there.

[–]Gravi 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In my experience when I was reinstalling my OS a lot on my old kingston ssd, the speeds became rather bad and pretty slow, same for the nVME but less so due to less of me reinstalling stuff.

SSD's are great for short-term speeds and stuff or any old computer that does not write a lot of memory in the disk i.e. browsing the web and shi.

Overall there are many problems with SSD manufacturers being dickwads and replacing chips with shittier ones like Kingston did, I guess raid 0 on hard drives? But even then if one fails, get fucked lmao.