[dillondf]

Basically only buy SSD brands who either are chip fabs or have a relationship with a single chip fab. So. Intel, Crucial, Samsung, maybe one or two others. And that's it. And frankly I have to say that only Intel and Crucial have been really proactive about engineered fixes for failure cases. Never buy SSDs from second-tier vendors such as Kingston who always use the cheapest third-party flash chips they can find. There are literally dozens of those sorts of vendors. Hundreds, even.

-Matt

[tracker1]

Not so sure about that, two out of the three SSDs I first used where Intel's second generation.. two of them went bad about a year in... I've used Corsair, Crucial and Samsung since... other than the two intels, out of about 12 drives since, I have only had one go bad (just about doa, died 2 hrs in).

It's pretty much conjecture... I will say that I was pretty disappointed in a lot of the seagate 7200 3tb drives I bought 3 years ago.. out of 12, 3 are now dead under moderate use... (I bought in different batches from different vendors for teh same model).

[gonzo]

Micron is the name behind Crucial.

Kingston has gotten very good (and they used to suck) at least in the eMMC space (not quite a SSD, but close).

[kabdib]

Crucial are the drives I've been ripping out. Enterprise class. They just died after 2 years of service and not really all that much wear, won't talk to the outside world anymore.

I nailed one to the wall of our IT lab as a warning not to buy any more of them.

[rasz_pl]

>Kingston has gotten very good

...at ninja swapping components under same model name, google V300