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Never run into any issues myself nor in my repair shop. Article is by someone at Seagate which is by far at the lower end of anything SSD so would be very hard for me to take anything serious from him. I've got a SSD external drive with some data that probably hasn't been touched in almost a year and powering it back on and looking at my data, it looks perfect
 
The points made seem kind of silly. They say it's more of an issue with enterprise SSDs, however temps in those environments would be more consistent, as opposed to laptop that gets brought to and from different environments or cooks in a car. I can't imagine have a dormant SSD unless it were faulty or upgraded for a larger one. :p
 
It's all about write capacity. I'm rated at 50GB of writes a day for 5 years so needless to say I am not worried. Just stay away from Samsung made Nand, they have a high failure rate because of the type of Nand they use. Micron, OCZ and toshiba make the best nand and honestly micron is the best since most of their drives are rated far above enterprise needs.

Just don't defrag a SSD, it destroys it's lifespan.
 
I have occasionally forgotten to recharge my macbook air (since I use it only occasionally), and the SSD on it has not degraded from what I have seen.
 
OK. Thanks guys. SSD prices have come down a lot. Good time to shop around. I'll take Col. Gaspar's advice.
 
I run a couple of servers for work, data retention is: RAID + daily backup on hard media (tape drive). I then tell the employees "if you want something backed up, burn it to a cd and put it somewhere you can find it" Do not rely on just a drive or even two.

BACK YOUR IMPORTANT SHIT UP TO DVDs. Once again:
BACK YOUR IMPORTANT SHIT UP TO DVDs

Backup which you cannot re-download. The cloud fails, raid fails, tape drives fail. DVDs/CDs will eventually fail but put in a case in the closet you have a greater chance of data retention. Cloud/raid will fail. It's not if, it's when. It's a lottery and people still win the lottery.

I've had two cheap off brand SSDs fail at work. I've never had one fail at home.

I've been running two 40GB intel x25-v (or -Ms) since they came out in 08. They are used as cache drives now, but they've taken serious writes for about 7 years. Still great.

SSDs were great from the start, they're cheaper and better now. Single best upgrade you can do.
 
Most SSD's will be able to write a petabyte (1000+ terabytes) before they run into failing at reallocating bad sectors which is a lot of freaking data..
 
I've been using SSD's for quite a while now. I also have some that sit on my bench for long periods of time (temps fluctuate because i dont keep the AC on all day) - they've never lost data. I've had a few fail on me, back in the OCZ Vertex/Vertex2 days, but none recently. I've got mostly Crucial/Micron and Samsung now. I haven't had any problems with either.

Col. Gaspar said:
Just stay away from Samsung made Nand, they have a high failure rate because of the type of Nand they use.
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Really @Col. Gaspar ? their 3D NAND? got any articles? I haven't had any issues with my 840's & 850's.

fAt Kaka said:
SSD any day of the week. not going back to spinners
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