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OCZ SSD Test panel - Two Year Test Run Comes To An End
Two years ago there was a lot of discussion about the endurance of SSDs, failure rates and so on. OCZ at the time had to fight off a bit of a reputation and claimed that their SSDs had extremely low failure rates. At that time Guru3D proposed an idea to OCZ, give us 10 SSDs, we’ll ship them towards 10 forum users and we’ll keep track of them for two years.
The two years have now officially passed, and a lot of things happened (while nothing happened with all SSDs), OCZ is no more, they have been purchased by Toshiba. Toshiba is still selling OCZ SSDs as part of their branding. Yeah it is amazing how much has happened ever since we started this test in May 2015.
We have continued and monitored the the test panel group for two years now. And if you want to have a peek, feel free to look at the results from the test panel in theforum linkage below. All OCZ Vertex 460A SSDs are still up and running, none of them have had a failure and all of them show good to close to advertised performance values. Most panel members even have 98% lifetime left on their SSDs despite using and abusing their SSD as daily OS drive and some have written A LOT of TBs.
Personally I have to say that is has been a pleasure watching and following the test panel as it also confirms my strong believe in NAND based storage solutions being durable, long-lasting and trustworthy. Pretty much all panel members have been able to post their scores and benchmarks on a monthly basis dureing these long two years, much thanks for that. Albeit OCZ might not be around as a standalone company anymore, we do like to thanks Tobias and Bernd from (back then) OCZ for having the guts to take part of this test as really it was a ballsy thing from them to agree to. I think it is safe to state if you invest in a proper SSD, it will last you for many many years.
Have a peek at the latest updates, some panel members still need to add the final May 2017 results though.
Going strong even after two years of usage
OCZ SSD Test Panel Up and Running - following 10 people for two years - 05/08/2015 02:15 PM
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#5426760 Posted on: 05/01/2017 05:19 PM
I thought the most questionable part of SSD reliability was the lack of usage. I remember hearing how enterprise SSDs had compromised data integrity after a week of being powered off. I also recall hearing specifically only enterprise SSDs had issues, but consumer-level models were generally reliable.
I think at least one of the 10 testers should've filled the drive with various sized files and then leave the PC off for a full month between tests. Then do SHA256 sums or whatever to make sure everything looked correct.
I thought the most questionable part of SSD reliability was the lack of usage. I remember hearing how enterprise SSDs had compromised data integrity after a week of being powered off. I also recall hearing specifically only enterprise SSDs had issues, but consumer-level models were generally reliable.
I think at least one of the 10 testers should've filled the drive with various sized files and then leave the PC off for a full month between tests. Then do SHA256 sums or whatever to make sure everything looked correct.
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#5426761 Posted on: 05/01/2017 05:22 PM
I only have SSD's in my PC, so I'm not worried at all. Glad to see my belief is backed up by these results.
I only have SSD's in my PC, so I'm not worried at all. Glad to see my belief is backed up by these results.
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#5426774 Posted on: 05/01/2017 05:36 PM
I'm definitely guilty of that.
Great run everyone, feels like we started just yesterday!
It's definitely been a great run, and you're right about saying it feels like we started yesterday.
Time really does fly.
I'm definitely guilty of that.
Great run everyone, feels like we started just yesterday!
It's definitely been a great run, and you're right about saying it feels like we started yesterday.
Time really does fly.
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#5426787 Posted on: 05/01/2017 05:52 PM
FireFox does a LOT of writes to my SSD, I know I have up to about 20 windows open each with Many tabs.
I have moved the Temp Internet files directory to a RAM drive to reduce writes and also have moved my pagefile to the same RAM drive.
Initially the pagefile was used very little at all for a long time. However more recent changes to the way FireFox works have seen it using the pagefile Heavily despite my PC having plenty of free RAM (32GB installed). It is now to the point that FF over a day pulls close to 10GB or pagefile !!!
Despite these efforts my Samsung 512GB 850 Pro has:
487.5 days of on time
24,242GB written
This equates to about 49GB or writes per day.
FF is responsible for almost all of that despite the efforts I made to reduce SSD writes. I know this from using an app to records all system writes over a period of time.
My previous SSD and OCZ 256GB Vertex 4 shat itself and lost it's file table (once I worked out what happened I was able to recover most of my data thankfully).
OCZ web support were very helpful and told me to go through certain steps to reset my SSD and told me it would be as good as new and would almost 100% not suffer the same issue a second time.
By this point I had my new 850 Pro so the OCZ drive sat on a shelf for about a year after which I installed Linux on it for my spare system.... which crashed after about 30mins use.
- thereafter it would always crap out and no longer be seen by the system after about 5 mins use. I've tried quite a few times, but it has a serious issue now.
It was a damn good SSD while it worked.
FireFox does a LOT of writes to my SSD, I know I have up to about 20 windows open each with Many tabs.
I have moved the Temp Internet files directory to a RAM drive to reduce writes and also have moved my pagefile to the same RAM drive.
Initially the pagefile was used very little at all for a long time. However more recent changes to the way FireFox works have seen it using the pagefile Heavily despite my PC having plenty of free RAM (32GB installed). It is now to the point that FF over a day pulls close to 10GB or pagefile !!!
Despite these efforts my Samsung 512GB 850 Pro has:
487.5 days of on time
24,242GB written
This equates to about 49GB or writes per day.
FF is responsible for almost all of that despite the efforts I made to reduce SSD writes. I know this from using an app to records all system writes over a period of time.
My previous SSD and OCZ 256GB Vertex 4 shat itself and lost it's file table (once I worked out what happened I was able to recover most of my data thankfully).
OCZ web support were very helpful and told me to go through certain steps to reset my SSD and told me it would be as good as new and would almost 100% not suffer the same issue a second time.
By this point I had my new 850 Pro so the OCZ drive sat on a shelf for about a year after which I installed Linux on it for my spare system.... which crashed after about 30mins use.
- thereafter it would always crap out and no longer be seen by the system after about 5 mins use. I've tried quite a few times, but it has a serious issue now.
It was a damn good SSD while it worked.
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I'm definitely guilty of that.
Great run everyone, feels like we started just yesterday!