The Subject of SSD Reliability in 2019: Advice Wanted/ Plus my Observations as a Tech

Does anyone remember with Crucial had a firmware bug?

So did Samsung but don’t tell ok?

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I’ve heard good thinks about Intel brand ssds

Except that 660p thing.

Those 840 normal drives

I have had a Samsung evo fail on me.

Thats only an issue if your using it for high end workloads, not an issue for the target audience

which one? I only had 840 evo for sata, I buy mostly pro drives (have a few nvme evo drivs but similar number of pro)

I have one of those and the news popped up after I bought the drive. Still in the same system for 4 years, owned it for 5 years and didn’t bog down. I guess I got lucky!
850 Evo, flawless. Love it and would recommend Samsung for flash storage.
Also had great luck with SanDisk memory (pen drives and SD cards) so I guess their SSDs are just as good.

They work it just if you let data sit on them for long periods of time and didnt apply the update it was a bit slow

It didn’t ask me to update the firmware and I don’t do Windows updates on it since 2016.

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It wasnt a windows update it was a samsung firmware

It was an 850 evo 120gb. I had it for a few years before it started writeholeing

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Big yikes

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On Windows we used procmon (Process Monitor). On Linux I personally use iotop.

Huge number of options in the Linux world. Not sure about the current version of Windows though — been out of that scene for a while now.

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The built in resource monitor isnt that bad imo

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I honestly don’t care. If ain’t broke don’t fix it, right?

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I’ll bite my tongue on that one.

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Not really, usually they are ordered from Amazon and Newegg

You get what you pay for