Your experience with current SSD HDDs?

[RED IMPACT]

I bought a Samsung 256gb from someone on here 18months ago and still going strong. More storage would be nice but it's a work machine with need for speed - i7 so not a backup or net machine.

Used a prog called SSDlife (or something like that) and it reports a silly amount of cold boots etc until useless, in real terms about 8+ years worth.

Boots Win 7 in under 10 secs from power switch cold boot inc bios faffing

 

[Beavis]

I bought an Adata 128 Gb 3 years ago, and it's absolute bollox!
It might fail someday though, but the same goes for conventional drives, so I make image copies from time to time, in order to stay on the safe side...

 

[Shoonay]

There's only one thing you have to keep in mind when getting an SSD. Type of memory. Get something on SLC (100k cycles) or at least MLC (10k cycles). TLC (1k-3k cycles) are cheap for a reason.
I'm not saying they're bad, if you don't write to much onto them you can probably use one for years, but you know, better safe than sorry.

EDIT: Also, there's this thread
https://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?64626-SSD-Endurance-Experiment

 

[Harrison]

We've had a few threads about SSDs over the years, and it seems everyone's experience of them improves with each new thread about them.

I remember asking some time ago and it was a very negative response, with a high failure or data loss percentage, other than Intel drives which have always seemed more reliable than others which seems to indicate spending more on them has been worth it.

This I think is the first time we have had nearly 100% positive experiences for SSDs as thee technology is now quite mature. I still wouldn't save money and buy a budget drive though. It also makes sense why a lot of previous HDD makes were all selling off their drive manufacturing subsidiaries. They wanted to concentrate on SSD technology.

My main PC is still running on all standard SATA drives and I've been considering upgrading that to an SSD boot drive for some time, but decided to wait until Windows 10 was officially released. So it looks like I will be upgrading at the end of the month. Either an Intel or Samsung drive I think.

 

[KingDaveRa]

SSDs can last a very long time:
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

I've got SSDs in my desktop and my laptop, and have had for quite some time. Other than having to apply firmware to them (my Corsair drive had some silly SMART bug), they've been fine. I've also got SSDs in different form factors (2.5" SATA and m-SATA) and they just keep plugging on.

I wouldn't use one for storing data, for the simple fact they are relatively expensive. A stack of WD Red drives are far cheaper for storing occasionally read data.

SSDs are a no-brainer for boot disks, in my opinion.