Node 0 - SSD issues

["colinglover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are SSD's really this unreliable?

About 15 months ago i decided to replace a very noisy system drive in my
server (running XP) with an OCZ Vertex SSD.  10 months later, the OS
started freezing, which became more frequent until it eventually wouldn't
boot.  Various disk daig tools failed to recognise the disk at all.  Amazon
refunded, i bought a new SSD, chosing Crucial this time, and this has
worked fine until this week, when the OS started freezing again.  disk
diags are not showing any issues.

Cruial's helpdesk said XP isnt great with SSD's as there is no 'trim
support', and the crucial SSD doesnt come with any utilities to ensure
optimum drive health.

I've bought a Samsung SSD, as i want to have 2 x OS SSD's mirrored, to give
me a level of redundancy.

But with 2 failures within 15 months, im either very unlucky, or doing
something wrong.

I have upgraded to Win7 this morning, hoping that would help resolve the
issues with the Crucial SSD, however, it's still flakey (i havent
introduced the new Samsung SSD yet as i wanted to see if the problem was
purely down to XP on the Crucial).

The server is well ventiated, temps are around 35-40c.

reliability is key here, as im far to lazy to walk round the house turning
lights off before bed!

Any thoughts?

Colin





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