whats funny is i dont care who makes the drives i just wont buy generic ones like adata sabrent to name a few. You dont see people who say "bought 5 intel ssd and 4 died" but you sure see people who bought 5 adata and had 4 die, same iwth sabrent.. soooooo yea quality control or what ever you want to call it is just not there for me, id rather spend a few bux more and get the name i want.
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For what it's worth, I swapped out 3 of these for new SSDs last year. They were in use by local restaurants in the POS systems. A local POS vendor uses a lot of them. They all died abruptly overnight with no warning and minimal total writes. There was no observable slowness or other issues before they were gone.
I had an Intel 530 myself (SandForce based.) in my laptop. Then it died. Swapped to Crucial - I have never had a Crucial SSD fail, out of many hundreds installed.
I also use Samsung where high performance and reliability is needed. And my current laptop has a QLC Intel 660p in it, as that's a class leading SSD for power efficiency. Also, I don't care if it dies since I dock it at night and it does automatic backups. I can get fully up and running again in 3 hours if need be.
I used to get sudden death 8MB Intel 320's brought to me en masse. The firmware "fix" didn't work, and they still died even after. (Power cycles had a small chance to trigger it.)
And the legendary Intel X-25M - those tended to go cooky and misplace files after 4-5 years, requiring a secure erase to restore integrity.
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My experience has been that Intel SSDs are overrated, and rarely outlast the warranty length by long. (Sometimes not even.) I would take them over a TLC/QLC junk brand, but Samsung, Crucial and Plextor are my three top picks for high stability/longevity. (Plextor is not a popular one, but they typically nail their firmware.) Intel does have some very strong points, and I will use them too so long as there's daily or weekly backups being made.
Crucial SSDs are the exact opposite of "benchmarking queens" - they will slow themselves down to make proper decisions when under harsh loads. I have seen three go "slow" - they get abused by writes to the point that they throttle and writes take a long time, but reads are still snappy. The slowest took up to an hour to install a program like CCleaner. It belonged to a local business owner whose prior SandForce drive had died after a few months. After their prior tech restored backups to a new drive, it perished after a few months. He had forgotten to set up backups again and got fired. I then got brought on and installed a Crucial drive, restoring the stale backups. A few months later I was phoned about extreme slowness. I investigated and discovered that in just over two months it had racked up over 220TB of writes. The culprit ended up being WER - Windows Error Reports - constantly being generated, recycled, deleted, re-generated - 80% of the drive was windows error reports. Constant churn, hundreds of terabytes per month until the internal fragmentation likely got too extreme. The Crucial went into snail mode. Other brands just died unexpectedly.
Anyway, sorted out the WER problem and no more dying SSDs for him. Would not recommend any controllers that do "fancy" stuff (compression, etc.) for extreme loads. (Word, Excel, Outlook + Chrome... plus random Windows glitches.)
Anyway - 4TB! Wow. Pretty soon I'll be able to fit 12TB+ in a laptop. Crazy.