Warning to Sandisk Ultra SSD users

[evilsatan]

I supplied a few of these 12-14 months ago and I have today had my second one so far this year fail. Having searched around it seems they are dropping like flies so backup your data asap and consider replacing with a Samsung 840 or Crucial MX100 whilst they are available for £50-60.

One model was the 60GB and one was the 120GB so looks like they will all be affected, this particular one is SDSSDH-120G-G25 manufactured 3rd April 2012. They have 3 years warranty and Sandisk should upgrade you to the Ultra Plus.

[consoles]

Just ordered 60 of these MX100 to replace the HD's in the teacher machines at school, well actually ordered 62 need a few for *cough* testing purposes.

[evilsatan]

I'm not sure why crucial have released the m500, m550 and mx100 in such quick succession but I have ordered loads of the m500 and a few mx100 recently as the m4 was so solid and regular firmware updates. Tbh, given their price, I think I will stick to crucial and samsung from now on. Kingston hyperx are decent when on sale too.

[maltloaf]

SSD are (still) very unreliable. Fast but unreliable. If they are going to fail they just fail too, often no warning and no way of recovering any data. Anyone using a SSD and not taking regular back ups is a fool imho.

[consoles]

Good for schools, bootup times etc and data is all stored on sans, computers can just be re-imaged.

[MHP]

I've had 2 Corsair 120GB Force3's go tits up on me in the last 3 months. They were both still under warranty but I had to pay for the shipment to Holland for the RMA. I switched to Samsung a while back, it makes sense as they make all of the drive components.

[reverend]

Thought I had one of these but just dug the email out and it's an Extreme so fingers crossed they're not affected!

That is a problem with these though - they do just tend to die and then you're buggered without a backup!