<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Sorry to hear of your SSD woes Khalid, must be a ton of read retries causing the slow copy?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We use a ton of Samsung 860 Pro and EVO in my world for laptops/workstations and cache devices on NAS units. The 860 PRO with it's LMC tech is likely overkill for an end-user situation and the prices are brutal.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The 860 EVO is the perfect blend of decent pricing and unparalleled reliability compared to it's peers in the TLC realm.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We have used Intel, Sandisk, Crucial/Micron, and Samsung since about 2009 and the Samsung are the ones holding up best, only about 4-5 failures in 9 years within a population of at least 3000 units in play. The Intel units were the worse.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>The prices online at at CC are remarkably low for Samsung and a fair number of SSDs out there, hard to go wrong.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:25 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>So, the excepted happened and a laptop with an SSD failed. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The laptop itself is OK, despite its age, but the SSD (added in the past few years), failed.</div><div>First, it was a SMART error like this:</div><div><br></div><div>Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors<br>
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Device info:<br>
HP SSD S700 120GB, S/N:xxxx, FW:Q0330B1, 120 GB</div><div><br></div><div>Then it was 3 sectors, and yesterday it was 33 sectors.</div><div><br></div><div>I started copying the data off of the SSD to an external USB disk. It is working, but it is very slow. <br></div><div>The shell command is slow when I press tab for command completion. Most commands time out (systemd reports several timeouts). The disk is mounted read only.</div><div><br></div><div>The copying is now a day and a half for a only a few tens of GB. The target disk flickers once every minute or so.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Why is this copying too slow?</div><div><br></div><div>Another question is what replacement SSD should I get. Ron Singh posted a while back about Samsung EVO 860, which are still on sale at Canada Computers and BestBuy (ends tomorrow), e.g.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=120021" target="_blank">https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_1229_1088&item_id=120021</a></div><div><br></div><div>Are these still a good value? Or are there alternatives?<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-5096769395867302475gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>Fast Reliable Drupal<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.<br>Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra<br>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- anonymous<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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