SSD Drives: Good For the Long Haul? - Comments Page 2

Bob, normally I agree with you on your topics, and have even piped in with examples of my own, but this time we are not in step.
"The torture test started in August, 2013; as of June, 2014, only half of the drives have given up the ghost."
To me that DOESN'T seem real good that in less than a year on half are dead, but it does jibe with what seems to be happening at work. We've been using them for 2 years now and they are failing at about that rate.
Now you may say that the test is ongoing 24/7, but I'm telling you the failure rate is about 50% after 2 years in the real world.
Not trying to be argumentative, but if they are going and going, then they are going into the trash.

So we have a lot of commenters whose experiences with SSDs belie the test results reported here. I can think of at least two explanations:

1. Commenters' experiences are older, when SSDs were less durable.

2. Manufacturers' gave Tech Crunch cherry-picked SSDs that were pre-tested for quality defects. Poor quality control and manufacturing standardization would yield SSDs that vary widely in their durability, even within the same model family.

The test is not authoritative because of its small sample size. Do the same thing to 100 units of each drive and the dependability of the results will be much greater.