[GeorgeBeech]

Not necessarily. We've been running Intel SSDs in productions at Stack Exchange for 4+ years, and just recently had our first 2.5" drive die.

That said, most of the drives in this article are consumer drives. The problem with consumer drives is that they don't have capacitors. And since your writes are cached by the drive before they go to the NAND, if you lose power all of your drives will be corrupted in the exact same way at the exact same time.

If you don't care about the data, go ahead and use them. If you do pay the extra for Enterprise drives. They really aren't _that_ much more expensive these days.

[deelowe]

Interesting. Do you have more info on what you mean by "Not necessarily?" From what I've seen during reliability studies on SSDs, they have a fairly tight failure curve. This is very dissimilar from hard disks where there's much more variance from drive to drive.

I'm genuinely interested.

[GeorgeBeech]

Nothing that would pass deep scrutiny. Just our experience running SSDs in almost every server at Stack. We've only had one mass failure of drives. That was when 5/8 Samsung drives died around the same time in our packet capture box. The remaining 3 are still alive, although we don't really use them.

We have only had two Intel drives die on us. I'm interested (well academically, not professionally) if they will die at the same time or keep dropping off one at a time.

We tend to retire the machines or the drives in them before they fail.