SSD Prices In A Free Fall

My opinion is if you use a Samsung and/or a Intel you most likely will not have problems.

Anything can fail but I use both those brands and have have no problem.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Usually, if not always, when a SSD dies, the data is gone.

I'm not so sure. There are recovery services on offer. The NAND memory chips could possibly still be accessed.

It's doubtful a company would want to spend the time and money to try to access any data that still may be on the SSD.

I have 3 x 256 GB Toshiba SSD's and they have been 100% reliable. I hammer my 2 and Tammy does not do much to upset hers. Toshiba are one of the biggest memory companies in the world. I also have 5 Kingston 120 GB drives and a Crucial 256 GB I put in Tammy's laptop. All of them have been absolutely fine. The scare stories are most likely being put out by hard drive manufacturers who long term can see their market going away completely. A 3 or 4 TB SSD is way out there in the orbit for pricing for now but if they were $100 you would get one. SSD's are shock resistant and they use very little power and are silent. You drop you external HD and it is done unless you are very lucky. It would not affect an SSD. All the nonsense of power being removed from them causing failure is just another scare tactic.

I just read in the latest Maximum PC that a 6TB SSD has been announced. Late last year or early this year, some one at Intel predicted SSDs would be up to 10TB in two years. Considering how fast they have been going from 1 TB to 6TB so far, we might see a 10TB SSD by the end of the year. It will take a while before the prices come down, though. You can buy a 4TB SSD right now, though, for a mere $5649.99.

Most development seems to be for faster SSDs. AHCI and SATA III are too slow and inefficient for SSDs so NVMe and M.2 or PCIe are the standards for the faster SSDs. Many MOBOs already have M.2 on them and they are starting to come out with MOBOs that will support NVMe. We already have M.2 and PCIe SSDs. Consumer SSDs with NMVe aren't far off.

What I don't understand is AHCI and SATA III are plenty fast for storage so, instead of spending a lot of time trying to cram multiple TBs into a 2.5" form factor, why doesn't someone come up with a multiple TB SSD in a 3.5" form factor? Computers and servers already have 3.5" HDD bays that these puppies could drop right into.

Indianatone said:

...All the nonsense of power being removed from them causing failure is just another scare tactic.

Up to a point. If they set on a shelf long enough, the charge in the cells will eventually bleed off. In most consumer SSDs, that could take somewhere north of a year.

Lady Fitzgerald said:

Indianatone said:

...All the nonsense of power being removed from them causing failure is just another scare tactic.

Up to a point. If they set on a shelf long enough, the charge in the cells will eventually bleed off. In most consumer SSDs, that could take somewhere north of a year.

The US NIST will come out with recommendations eventually but I think technology is advancing too rapidly for these open Gov standards bodies to be up to date.

Yep I'll probably pick up a couple more 250gb Samsung 850 pro evo's soon
99.us isn't bad at all.

ThrashZone said:

Yep I'll probably pick up a couple more 250gb Samsung 850 pro evo's soon
99.us isn't bad at all.

If you find the weight too heavy to carry, say by one drive(where have I heard that name before? Hmmm ) just lob it on over. I hate to see a forum friend in distress.

That's where the dual ssd hot swap evo case comes in mighty handy :)