My OCZ SSD died :( - Page 5

On November 22 2011 15:38 shubcraft wrote:
Slightly OT but most needed advice:

Always, and i mean ALWAYS, backup your data!! Regardless if its a SATA, SSD, SAS, internal or external drive. Every disk can die a sudden, unannounced death.

I work for a storage company and our customers deal with 2 problems:

1) physical data loss (i.e.: dead disks, power outage, dead raid array or burned datacenter)
2) logical data loss (i.e.: corrupted databases or a stupid admin/user who hit the wrong button)

Both of these points apply for private use as well so your minimal configuration should be a SSD for your daily doings and an external SATA disk to backup your stuff. If you have a gazillion of FABulous material on your PC so it wont fit the external drive, please at least backup your real important data such as personal documents, emails and pictures of your firstborn which you have not copied to someplace else yet. I get calls every week from friends who have friends who have a mate who told them that i can fix harddrives, simple fact is in 9 out of 10 cases you just cannot and without a valid backup you are doomed.

You have been warned! ;-)

Back top topic: I have an OCZ Vertex 2 in my gaming rig, an Intel in my desktop at work and a cruiser in my work laptop, all 3 have been totaly fine for over 1 - 2 years. I barely hybernate tho as a full reboot is a matter of seconds.

On November 26 2011 17:26 Sxcerino wrote:
crucial m4's speed isnt muchhhhh lower, it's good enough that you won't notice the difference

basically if you're looking for more reliable with good speed ssds, but comes with a price premium go with intel 510, crucial m4

if you're looking for cheap, fast but more unreliable drives, you can roll the dice and go with a sandforce based drive (vertex, corsair, kingston, patriot). heard the later two has better QA so might be slightly more reliable. who knows

On November 26 2011 19:01 kirdie wrote:
I just put my important non-private data (basically work and other projects, like my home page or source code or stuff for the university like presentations) in a version control system.

Google Code for example gives you a free svn account. SVN is quite old however so I would look around and get one with git or mercurial because it's faster and better.

This achieves multiple things:

- it is really safe because unlike a usual backup it does not share a physical location
- you have the data backed up by a single "svn commit"
- you have the data on your new pcs with just "sv checkout"
- you have the data synchronized with your other pcs with just "svn update"
- someone needs the file from you and you're not at home? just browse to your google code site and give them the link.
- same if you are in another place and you need some of your files
- you don't have to spend much time to search for your backups and find the right one
- you can always restore to a very near point if you commit often enough
- even if you overwrite a file you can just restore the older version with one command

Problem is however that this puts up your data for everyone to see but for some files that is not an issue. Also it's not that good for binary files.

On November 28 2011 05:27 TapeDeckChris wrote:



i agree 100%. ive seen 2 vertex drives die within a few weeks, my friend replaced with an intel 510 and it runs like a dream for months now. if you cant afford to spend that little extra for quality, i would recommend not getting an ssd until you can. if only to save you the head-aches that can ensue.