Help with buying new hard drive

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:44:01 -0000, Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:35:33 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote:

Intel are supposed to make the most reliable ones.

Citation?

A few years ago I read a review which simply counted RMA return percentages, finding OCZ to be pitiful, and Crucial to be 5 times more reliable.

A few months ago I searched for more tests when I got annoyed with my Crucial SSDs failing. I'm 99% sure this was the article I read about Intel being even better: http://www.extremetech.com/computing...e-manufacturer

I just noticed that the article is 1 year out of date, mind you it mentions the Crucial M4. I've used lots of M4s and M500s (its successor), and both have about the same reliability. They both will on occasion disappear without warning. The M4s needed a firmware update to stop it happening. The M500s become fussy about the disk controller, sometimes preferring a SATA2 or a SATA3 controller for some reason - timing presumably.

While writing this post I thought, "I wonder if the M500 has an update", and it does. Maybe that will fix my problem :-) (One of my SSDs keeps changing its mind as to what disk controller it will work on). Trouble is the blasted firmware update program won't work through the RAID controller. I guess I have to do them with RAID switched off and hope that the RAID array doesn't get broken.... I'll do one at a time!

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