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A-Data S396 the worst SSD

I never trusted this brand. Not every cheap brand is crap, but this one certainly is. I had very bad experience with their SDRAM and DDR in G4 and G5. Although I was once kinda forced to buy their DDR3 for Mini, and (knock on wood) it still works.
 
Now even if they send me new ones I will replace all four with Corsair Force 3 60 GB. They seems to be very reliable and even faster than OCZ Vertex 3 60 GB.
 
Spacedust said:
Now even if they send me new ones I will replace all four with Corsair Force 3 60 GB. They seems to be very reliable and even faster than OCZ Vertex 3 60 GB.
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Corsair issued a recall in 2011. From what I have seen Force 3's are on par with Agility 3 NOT Vertex 3. So not sure of the speed or reliability. ymmv.
 
derbothaus said:
Corsair issued a recall in 2011. From what I have seen Force 3's are on par with Agility 3 NOT Vertex 3. So not sure of the speed or reliability. ymmv.
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Vertex 3 is fantastic in terms o reliability. I got two Vertex's 3 120 GB in my database server in RAID1 working 24/7 with more than 1500 MySQL databases and so far no issue from December 2011. I use the latest firmware 2.25.

131 TB reads/31 TB writes - wear range delta 2 on both.

OCZ got great support and forums. They reply very quickly.

Vertex 3 is a little bit more pricey than Corsair. I will look how prices will go in next weeks.

Last year I was using a server with just one Intel SSD 80 GB drive and it also lasted almost a year, but I can't test it longer since the whole server was replaced with a better one.

This year dead/problematic SSD list with number of Power On Hours when first error occured:

Kingston SS100S2 16 GB - 1600
Kingston SSDNow 40 GB - 6090 (that one got only few reallocated sectors, but it was working fine, replaced it because it was 3 years old and warranty was about to expire, it was an Intel in Kingston case, so Intel is working very well)
Kingston SS100S2 16 GB - 2100
Kingston SS100S2 16 GB - 2200
Kingston SS100S2 16 GB - 2267
ADATA SSD S396 30 GB - 262
ADATA SSD S396 30 GB - 1282
ADATA SSD S396 30 GB - 1391
ADATA SSD S396 30 GB - 1900
 
Spacedust said:
Vertex 3 is fantastic in terms o reliability.
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I am glad that things are working great for you but this is not the general consensus. In fact it is the Vertex 3 in particular that dragged Sandforce's name through the mud and continues to draw ire from the SSD public when asked about stability and reliance. Vertex 3 sunk SF-2281. I currently use SF-2281/2 from OWC and Intel anyway. 1 in 4 have died.
 
The good thing is that OCZ is giving great tool to update firmware on SSD's on Linux without rebooting or unmounting file system ;)
 
Spacedust said:
The good thing is that OCZ is giving great tool to update firmware on SSD's on Linux without rebooting or unmounting file system ;)
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Kingston's SSD V200 is very unreliable with Lion but works flawlessly with windows 7. Some SSDs are finicky.
 
Omnius said:
Kingston's SSD V200 is very unreliable with Lion but works flawlessly with windows 7. Some SSDs are finicky.
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I don't see any issues with Mountain Lion nor with Windows 7. I'm using 128 GB model with latest firmware.
 
Spacedust said:
I don't see any issues with Mountain Lion nor with Windows 7. I'm using 128 GB model with latest firmware.
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My issue arose on the 256gb model (allegedly it was released with only the latest firmware). My understanding is that 256gb model doesn't have mac os x support. Although, I'm not sure how thats possible.
 
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