[scott_karana]

Do you have actual statistics? I'd truly like to see them.

Most of the reliability problems I've seen have been self-reported, so I'm not sure what biases are present in what I've seen. ;)

(I agree that many of their practices were bad, which likely lent to bad drives! This isn't trolling, just genuine curiosity if there were published stats)

[Mithaldu]

Enjoy:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&h...

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/911-7/ssd.html

[Steko]

And from 2012:

http://www.behardware.com/articles/862-6/components-returns-...

- Crucial 0.82% (as against 0.8%)

- Intel 1.73% (as against 0.1%)

- Corsair 2.93% (as against 2.9%)

- OCZ 7.03% (as against 4.2%)

Crucial has taken top spot from Intel thanks to a notable increase in Intel’s returns rate. We should say that this time, the Intel sample is only just above the minimum required and that some of the Intel returns are linked to the 8MB bug which has since been resolved. The OCZ rate has got a lot worse, going up to 7%, and only OCZ has models with rates of above 5%:

- 15.58% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 240 GB

- 13.28% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 160 GB

- 11.76% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 80 GB

- 9.52% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 120 GB

- 8.57% OCZ Vertex 3 Series 120 GB

- 7.49% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 60 GB

- 6.61% OCZ Vertex 2 Series 3.5" SSD 120 GB

- 6.37% OCZ Vertex 3 Series 240 GB

- 6.37% OCZ Agility 3 60 GB

- 5.89% OCZ Vertex 2 Series SSD 100 GB

The Vertex 2s have the worst scores but the Vertex 3s have nothing to be proud of either. Note that over the coming period, the Vertex 3s are doing much better thanks to developments in the firmware, with a rate of just 1.01% for the Vertex 3 120 GB as things stand.

[mrb]

Wow thanks for the data! In 10 years of interest in acquiring data in hardware return stats, this is the first time I come across such a source.

"The first question is of course where the stats come from. They’re taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have had direct access to. We were therefore able to extract the stats we wanted directly from source."