by LongRunner » June 18th, 2018, 10:23 pm
I had a 120GB one of these fail at about 6 years old, which ended up
silently corrupting the data.
(Not even S.M.A.R.T. admitted that there was anything wrong with it.

)
I don't know how common this is, but I've included them in
my product recalls anyway; if you have some, then I strongly recommend replacing them with a good model, as soon as possible (hopefully before it's too late). When you don't need them, they should be destroyed to prevent anyone from re-using them and losing
their data.
This leaves me very wary of
any SSDs with SandForce controllers in them. (Not that those don't have a bad reputation already.)
Last edited by
LongRunner on April 6th, 2019, 1:46 am, edited 2 times in total.
Reason: Possibly over-dramatized as originally written
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on.
Smart people don't buy "smart" devices without very carefully weighing up the risks and benefits beforehand.
My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA-H87M-D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G, WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 and HDS721010CLA630, Pioneer BDR-209DBKS and Optiarc AD-7200S, Seasonic G-360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.2 (with Windows 7 still accessible if needed).