| This AnandTech? "Back in October SandForce announced that it had discovered a firmware issue that resulted in unexpected BSODs on SF-2281 drives on certain platforms. Why it took SandForce several months to discover the bug that its customers had been reporting for a while is a separate issue entirely. SandForce quickly pushed out the firmware to OCZ and other partners. Our own internal testing revealed that the updated firmware seemed to have cured the infamous BSOD." Yay! "As luck would have it, our own Brian Klug happened to come across an unexpected crash with his 240GB non-Intel SF-2281 based SSD two weeks ago when he migrated it to another machine. The crash was an F4 BSOD, similar in nature to the infamous BSOD issue from last year." Oh. This was written 2/6/12. ... "Whatever Intel has done with the 520's firmware seems to have fixed problems that still remain in the general SF-2281 firmware." ... "While it's nearly impossible to prove most of this, the fact that we're still able to reproduce a BSOD on the latest publicly available SF-2281 firmware but not on the SF-2281 based Intel SSD 520 does say a lot about what you're paying for with this drive." http://www.anandtech.com/show/5508/intel-ssd-520-review-cher... |
I don't expect that I'll receive an apology for being called an unethical shill.
I'd still love to see some statistics on failure rates. All this anecdata is obnoxious for a buyer to wade through.