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Caveat emptor

These drives seem great at first, but if you push them too hard, the controller keels over and they need replugging or a reboot of the host machine. Also, the error rate seems to come out of nowhere once you've been using one for a bit.

The Intel drives are a lot more reliable, even if slightly slower and much more expensive on paper.

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Dodgy disks?

Yup, at least the first comment related to the failure rate: the writer had returned a Crucial SSD in favour of a Samsung. Can't remember what the other comments said.

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What gives?

Aren't these the ones with the really high failure rate? Is that why all those comments have been deleted? If so, jolly bad show, reg- you're supposed to warn people off bad hardware, not hide the face to butter up advertisers.

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