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drjack6

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I don't understand..
SSD is supposed to be reliable.
Yet every SSD I have ever looked at reviews for has almost as many 1 star as 5 star reviews. Sooo many complaints of drives failing in a day or in a month.
OCZ, Samsung, Kingston, Mushkin, Corsair, EVERY ONE has awful reviews except for OWC and Intel but theres are more expensive.
How do I know whats reliable??
 
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manofchalk
Newegg reviews aren't a reliable indication of quality or reliability, the people who get a drive that works arent going to have as much incentive to post a review, while someone who feels cheated because they got a bad drive will.
Its a vocal minority your seeing.

Besides, if you sell a million drives with a 1% failure rate (its most likely less) than that's still 10,000 people who get dead drives. Quite simply even though the percentage is tiny, thats still a lot of people (who are far more vocal than the rest) who get bad components simply due to the massive numbers involved.

Buy a drive that gets good reviews (actual tech site reviews, not Newegg/Amazon reviews), thats all you can really do. And if it does break, the manufacturers...
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I've been using a Samsung 840 250GB for the last year or so... and had no probs...
Bought the same one for a friend of mine... until now it works great.
In the past I also tried the OCZ Agility 3 which was perfect too! I sold it as it was only 60GB big. SSDs are faaaaar more reliable than HDDs.
 
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This is not only true with SSD, but with any electronics you will buy. I was shopping for an HDTV lately and couldn't find a single model without a bad review. Same thing with computer parts. DOA and other problems can happen with any electronic devices no matter how reliable the reputation of the maker is. I could draw an example with cars, even if you buy Toyota or Honda, you can get problems you never know. Unfortunately, nothing is perfect in this world, humans aren't perfect, and these things are all made my man, so yeah, nothing is 100% reliable in this world.

But here is an SSD I bought for myself not so long ago, it should be very reliable with excellent performance and a 5-year warranty:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820249033
 
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manofchalk

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Newegg reviews aren't a reliable indication of quality or reliability, the people who get a drive that works arent going to have as much incentive to post a review, while someone who feels cheated because they got a bad drive will.
Its a vocal minority your seeing.

Besides, if you sell a million drives with a 1% failure rate (its most likely less) than that's still 10,000 people who get dead drives. Quite simply even though the percentage is tiny, thats still a lot of people (who are far more vocal than the rest) who get bad components simply due to the massive numbers involved.

Buy a drive that gets good reviews (actual tech site reviews, not Newegg/Amazon reviews), thats all you can really do. And if it does break, the manufacturers have 3-5yr warranties on them and the retailer themselves can replace any DOA units. You'l be fine.
 
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Look you are dealing with computer hardware here. There is always the possibility of the hardware being faulty. You are also dealing with technology that a lot of idiots dont know how to install and use correctly. Thus there will always be bad reviews. Personally I have had an OCZ Agility 2, an OCZ Agility 3, and a Kingston HyperX 3K for 3, 2, and 1 year respectively and I have never had an issue with any of them.

Look into the following:

Samsung 840 Pro: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193#scrollReviews

OCZ Vertex 4: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227792

Mushkin Enchanced Chronos Deluxe: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226226

Kingston HyperX 3K: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239050
 
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OK, this might not have 500 bad reviews because there are only like 50 total,

Check out any SSD from Plextor. They are a really high performing SSD company that has some really good quality drives. Their flagship M5 Pro Xtreme drive is put through a vigorous performance test to ensure that there are no bad quality parts going out to the market, unlike OCZ, with chucks out lots of bad products and relies on RMA returns and replacements.

The only bad review for Plextor is a guy whining about how to upgrade firmware. not bad quality.

value- M5 s
performance- M5 pro
ultimate- M5 Pro Xtreme
 
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JohnnyLucky

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drjack6 - I agree with manofchalk. The user comments at newegg are definitely not a good indicator of performance and reliability.

I normally recommend Samsung due to their proven performance and reliability. Crucial, Intel, and Plextor are also worth considering.

I maintain the ssd database listed in the sticky at the very top of this forum section. Here I the link:

http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html

Scroll down to the brands and models you are interested in and follow the links to actual technical reviews which are quite different from user comments over at newegg.
 
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