At the risk of this being discussed before, I have to report that I'm not having very good luck on SSDs lately for cruncher rigs. I own three SSDs that I tried for an experiment. They are all a little less than 2 years old.

I lost two of the three. While I realize this is nowhere near a good statistical sample, I can't help but wonder. What was strange is that both drives failed within 2 weeks of each other. Different rigs, different power protection and UPSs....

The first failure was a Patriot 64gig unit that was part of my main rig, RAID 0 Array. Big mistake, I will NEVER do it again. (second time RAID 0 bit me....) It was dead as a doornail. I did image the rig, but that was last year. Thankfully, I have been so busy that no major stuff was lost on that rig. The image was still pretty up-to-date. It has a RAID mirror on Seagate server drives now.....

The second was on an OCZ 30gig unit. That was Farm-13. I stuck an old hard drive on it and reconstructed the crunching package. No real biggie there either.

The issue I have is that I have hard drives that have been crunching for YEARS, 24/7/365 without fail. In fact, I have never lost a hard drive to crunching. <knocks-on-wood-real-hard>

Anyone else seeing trouble? Remember, I have almost two years on these SSDs 24.7.365. Am I asking too much out of them? IDK.

Regards,
Bob

EDIT: I also realize that two years is a long time ago. Has the reliability improved? I would think so...