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    Quote Originally Posted by railmeat View Post
    how is this even possible since ssd,s are still to new(2+yrs) to compare to tried and true veteran (6+ year old) western digital raptors...lol? and sorry raptors are thee only drives worth comparing against any ssd.
    Of course we cannot have good statistics on 5 year reliability of SSDs (although we can make good guesses based on tests and data we do have). But that is not the point. The article referenced is pure propaganda since it purports to say that SSDs have a high one or two year failure rate. There is some reasonable data already on one or two year failure rates of SSDs, so it is absurd to give any credibility to the kind of anecdotal evidence the article mentions.

    Quote Originally Posted by railmeat View Post
    this is NOT a isolated instance and needs not to be down played as one,just the facts being diff ssd,s died period and shows me i was not doing something wrong with my 3 ssd,s i gave a chance.
    It absolutely should NOT be given credence. Anecdotal evidence is useless, or worse than useless, when looking at reliability. A careful statistical study with good methodology is required.

    The problem with anecdotal evidence is that there are millions of SSDs in use. Even if the annual failure rate is only 0.1%, there should be thousands of SSDs failing each year. All anecdotal evidence tells us is that there are indeed failures -- it gives us no useful information on the failure rate. The useful information that anecdotal evidence might provide is failure modes and how companies deal with warranties. But the referenced article provides nothing like that.
    Last edited by johnw; 05-20-2011 at 10:17 AM.

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