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by AsymetricCom 4706 days ago
Funny, my 520 got flaky after 6 months and failed after 2 years.
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StavrosK 4706 days ago
I have an Intel (not sure which model, X-25M? Does that exist?) I got in 2009, it started failing last year (SMART warned me). I emailed Intel about it and they asked me to send them SMART results, I did, they told me to mail them the drive, I backed everything up just fine and sent it in, and a (hellish, HDD-slow) week later I got a brand new one.

Restored the data, it's still going like a champ.

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Freaky 4706 days ago
> not sure which model, X-25M? Does that exist?

Yup, famous for being pretty much the first range of affordable SSDs that didn't suck.

The year before you'd be lucky to get more than double digit random writes/sec with anything. One OCZ I tried around that time couldn't even get past one digit - it managed something like 6 writes/second. Then the X-25M/E, came out and suddenly we get tens of thousands.

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epsylon 4706 days ago
Anecdotal evidence. No manufacturer has a 0% defect rate.

Still, the return rates (for some online retailers but they are probably generalizable) have shown that Intel and Samsung are your best options.

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