<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I’ve had good luck with mx500 but beware the larger ones are now QLC in many cases. Samsung Evo good also. Avoid QLC and avoid drives without DRAM. Even if you don’t need a bigger drive the extra size will help with wear leveling (longevity) and performance (striping reads and writes across the NAND cells).<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 24, 2023, at 17:34, Ron Singh <ronsingh149@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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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