Let's count Newegg customer reviews of current SSDs - Who will help?

[chimpanzee]

Well the Intel 510 have not needed any firmware updates as far as I know. It doesn`t have problems with freezing or BSODs at all. It is truly a plug and play SSD

thanks and good to know. I haven't followed too closely on the new things as I am not planning to buy anything in the near future.

[Phil]

I saw two people complain about minute long freezes during boot up with Intel 510. With one of them the drive died later.

Intel 510, 111 reviews:
Disk disappeared: 1
Worked fine then bricked: 6
DOA: 1
Mac. incompatibility issues: 2
60 sec. pause during boot: 1
Unknown issue: 1 (drive failed twice?)

12 failures in 111 reviews = ~ 11% failures.

Comparing Intel 510 to Crucial M4: Intel 510 suffers far less from freezing problems, but Crucial suffers far less from bricked drives.

If you want a reliable drive I suggest SATA II: Samsung 470 or Intel X25-M.

[Cloudfire]

I`m not shure we should follow the reliability rate we have calculated Phil. But then again our calculations of X25-M was pretty dead on with what Intel said

[Phil]

I`m not shure we should follow the reliability rate we have calculated Phil.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean... but I always realize that 10% failure on Newegg is not 10% failure in the real world. I assume people with problems are far more likely to leave feedback.

so calculating the 'failure rate' is mostly interesting for comparisons across brands and models.

[Cloudfire]

Yes for the purpose of comparing different brands this study is excellent

[Phil]

I think so too.

It might be interesting to recount Samsung 470, Intel X25-m and C300 using the separate categories.

I'm not looking forward to the work though

[Mr_Mysterious]

I think so too.

It might be interesting to recount Samsung 470, Intel X25-m and C300 using the separate categories.

I'm not looking forward to the work though

I could help, if you'd like.

Mr. Mysterious

[Phil]

I could help, if you'd like.

Mr. Mysterious

Yes that would be great. The more people help, the better.

If you want to start now you could take Samsung 470 (not too many reviews).

Count the "serious problems" (as defined in the first post) and categorize them something like this:
Disk not recognized:
Worked fine then bricked:
DOA:
Mac. incompatibility issues:
Unknown issue:

You can create new categories when you deem it necessary.

[Mr_Mysterious]

Here you go:


Product Name: Samsung 470 64GB
Total Number of Reviews: 67
Firmware Problems: 12
Bios not recognizing: 1
Mac Incompatibility issues: 2

Product Name: Samsung 470 128GB
Total Number of Reviews: 62
Firmware Issues: 11
VMWare problem: 1

Product Name: Samsung 470 256GB
Total Number of Reviews: 22
Firmware Issues: 8

I know you don't want us to include firmware issues, but it seems to be a very significant problem. If you don't want to include that in your study, that's fine.

Mr. Mysterious

[Phil]

We're counting malfunctioning drives, not complaints.

"Updating the firmware is nearly impossible" is a complaint if the drive works fine.

"My system freezes (because of firmware)" should be counted as a failure/ firmware problem.

So no bricked drives for Samsung 470?