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by lbraasch 4865 days ago
tl;dr

I'm guilty of the SSD fear. My first Intel (320) drive was meticulously maintained in fear of shortened life span and performance losses. I went so far as to question every file copied to the drive vs. mounting an external HDD. The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months.

Using a Samsung drive now. I don't think about read/writes anymore. I just use the darn thing.
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threedaymonk 4865 days ago
> The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months.

Was it an OCZ, by any chance? The exact same thing happened to me. I scrupulously avoided unnecessary wear, disabled swap (though I've been disabling swap for years), mounted /tmp on a RAM disk, and the accurs't thing killed itself stone dead waking from sleep due to a firmware bug.

I also replaced it with a Samsung, as it happens.

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ryanklee 4865 days ago
> My first Intel (320) drive
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threedaymonk 4865 days ago
Oh, that's embarrassing! I read that, but somehow convinced myself that it was part of another comment.
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specto 4865 days ago
I don't worry much about my ssd, however I do occasionally look at the wear with smartools.
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drzaiusapelord 4865 days ago
The 320 had a brickable fw bug? I have 5-10 or so in production and have no issues. Maybe mine have a newer FW. I always update them when I give them out.
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lbraasch 4865 days ago
It's pretty well documented. The supposed firmware fix doesn't fix the issue [1]

This drive came with my x220 (160gb), shipped March 2012. I have a second Intel 320 (120gb) which is older, and hasn't exhibited issue. Lenovo replaced the 160gb 320 under warranty. I opted to go with a 256gb Samsung 840 pro. The 320's are now external drives.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4646/intel-ssd-320-firmware-po...

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