<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Big fan of Samsung EVO and PRO SSDs, zero failures.  Same with any of the Crucial MX500 series, see --</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_4230&item_id=120759">https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=179_4230&item_id=120759</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">...that said, my brother at Vision Computers is a big fan of the WD Blue devices, zero failures for many years, I think going back to 2016. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">You will not go wrong with any of these choices. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The much larger-than-needed capacity of the drives you cite below will also prove beneficial for the wear-leveling algos used in these drives as said algos will have a heck of a lot more cells to use.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 5:18 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>My laptop's SSD is starting to report errors. <br></div><div>Every day for the past few days there are these errors:</div><div><br></div><div>Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors<br>
</div><div>Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors</div><div><br></div><div>The device is: OSSD256GBTSS2, FW:S1022A0, 256 GB</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Then upon rebooting, I see failed commands in dmesg. <br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Since I am only using ~ 50GB, that capacity is sufficient. <br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Looking at what is on sale now, I see:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>WD Blue<br></span></div><div><a href="https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/wd-blue-500gb-internal-solid-state-drive-wdbb8h5000anc-wrsn/16366472" target="_blank">https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/wd-blue-500gb-internal-solid-state-drive-wdbb8h5000anc-wrsn/16366472</a></div><div><br></div><div>Kingston <br></div><div><a href="https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/kingston-technology-480gb-sata-iii-internal-solid-state-drive-sa400s37-480g/11617915" target="_blank">https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/kingston-technology-480gb-sata-iii-internal-solid-state-drive-sa400s37-480g/11617915</a></div><div><br></div><div>Samsung EVO<br></div><div><a href="https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/samsung-870-evo-500gb-sata-iii-internal-solid-state-drive-mz-77e500b-am-english/15266458" target="_blank">https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/samsung-870-evo-500gb-sata-iii-internal-solid-state-drive-mz-77e500b-am-english/15266458</a></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Which of these will be more reliable?<br></span></div><div><span>-- </span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><br></div></div></div>
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