[App_rpt-users] PATA SSD drives

[David McGough]

I will 2nd Keith's comments. I run thru a rash of Crucial SATA SSD's in 
the 128GB (more or less) class that seem to fail after a few weeks of use. 
VERY annoying!!!



On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, Keith Goobie wrote:

> Doug
> 
> I would be extremely leery about the use of Crucial SSD¹s.  While they have
> been a strong product line in the past, their quality control of late has
> translated into products that do not work.  Most recently they have been
> accused of flooding the market with product that they know to be defective.
> Buyer beware!
> 
> We got lured lured in by their defective product, and spent many wasted
> hours, doing problem analysis and OS rebuilds.  When we dug in further
> through research on the net, and confirmed what is printed above, we
> abandoned Crucial and quickly moved to another product.
> 
> At our remote site we are using OCZ (x2) and SANDISK.  Both have been great
> performers.
> 
> We are running Centos on all SSD¹s. (DNS/Web/Mail, DSTAR and Allstar).
> 
> Keith / VA3YC
> 
> 
> On 1/11/14 10:25 PM, "Doug Crompton" <doug at crompton.com> wrote:
> 
> > Since many of us are using older computers for our servers that have PATA hard
> > drives I was wondering if anyone has installed a replacement SSD and if so
> > what has worked?
> > 
> > I imagine that the drives are transparent and should have no OS problems?
> > 
> > Here is a link to one that looks like it would work -
> > 
> > http://www.crucial.com/store/ssd.aspx?gclid=CLadwPrT97sCFeFlOgodYwYA0g&cpe=pd_
> > google_us&ef_id=UtIGvwAABE7D at Wq4:20140112030639:s
> > 
> > 73 Doug
> > WA3DSP
> > http://www.crompton.com/hamradio
> >        
> > 
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