Inland SSDs; How long will it last?

[idontknow2254]

Hi there, I was just wondering, how long will an Inland SSDs last? I understand they were rebranded by MircoCenter, but will it last very long? From what I heard, it does have a 3 year warranty.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Nobody can tell you how long a piece of hardware will last. Especially without a model number. But even with one, there are too many variables and nobody knows if YOUR drive will happen to be the one that has an early failure, or lasts beyond what it should.

For any given unit look at the expected terrabytes written specification and that should tell you how long it's likely to last based on how much data you tend to write to the drive. For somebody who writes constantly to the drive, rewriting often, it's not going to last as long as somebody who just installs windows on it and only rarely writes to the drive.

You can't just look at a drive and say "Oh yeah, that's gonna last three years".

 

[1LiquidPC]

SSDs have come a long way since the early days for longevity. Unless you get faulty one from manufacturing defect, you would likely never "wear it out" from normal and even heavy use. They are often rated at least in 100s of Terabytes until failure from writes should officially start to occur. For an example, I have my games installed on 850 Pro 512GB. Been running since I bought at launch back in 2014. Even now according to SSD Magician software, it's only got about 4TB of writes/wear on it.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah, that's a Samsung drive though. This is a bargain barrel product. There are going to be significant quality differences. This drive is not going to have the kind of lifespan that a Samsung EVO drive has, not even the old crappy 840 EVO in all probability.

Plus, as I said, what you write yearly and what I write yearly are likely entirely different, so the expected lifespans of our hardware will be as well. Longevity is dependent on two factor. Usage or defects.

 

[1LiquidPC]

Yes, that's true for OEMs to vary, ect. A quick search seems to point that Inland seems to be using some quality components in at least some of their lineup. Phison controllers and Toshiba NAND it seems. Not sure what model exactly they are looking at and their intended use. If I had to guess, it's for primarily a quick boot drive given the cost of drives they seem to be looking at. Guess we'll see if they write back.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi there, I was just wondering, how long will an Inland SSDs last? I understand they were rebranded by MircoCenter, but will it last very long? From what I heard, it does have a 3 year warranty.

It will last right up until the moment it dies.
When that will be, no one can say.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah, that's a Samsung drive though. This is a bargain barrel product. There are going to be significant quality differences. This drive is not going to have the kind of lifespan that a Samsung EVO drive has, not even the old crappy 840 EVO in all probability.

Hey now...the 840's aren't crappy. My 2 x 840 EVO's now 4 years old run almost exactly as fast as a brand new 860 EVO, to within a couple of percent.
Just as when they were brand new.

My old Kingston, however...major slowdown over the years.

 

[geofelt]

A cynic would say it will last for three years and a day.

The underlying nand chips in a ssd will have a limited number of read/rewrite cycles.
When all of them expire and the spares are used up, no more writes can be done.
Since you can still read the device, you can copy the ssd to another so no data is lost. A good thing.
Larger ssd devices will have more nand chips so they will last longer.

So much longer, today, that unless you are in a heavy server environment, normal desktop activity will last a very long time.
Perhaps 15 years. The device will be obsolete before it wears out.

The second life limitation is quality control. There is where the secondary brands do not so do well.
They buy nand chips from outfits like Samsung . they buy controllers elsewhere and integrate the two.
To sell at a reduced price, they can not take the time for product integration and quality control.
It is cheaper for them to replace under warranty than it is to produce a perfect product initially.
I might suspect also that Samsung will bin their chip, keeping the best ones for themselves and selling the rest.

 

[idontknow2254]

Wow, so many answers in a short amount of time. Anyways, the model I’m looking at the 480gb version. I was skeptical because I was eyeing an ADATA SSD, but everyone said it would fail on me within 3 months. I simply wanted to know if this would be the same case.

 

[idontknow2254]

I probably will buy a new SSD and clone it onto the new one before it dies though. Besides, SATA III would probably be outdated by the time the warranty ends.

 

[USAFRet]

Wow, so many answers in a short amount of time. Anyways, the model I’m looking at the 480gb version. I was skeptical because I was eyeing an ADATA SSD, but everyone said it would fail on me within 3 months. I simply wanted to know if this would be the same case.

"everyone said"....talking junk out their butt.
I'll bet not a single one of "those people" has actually owned one and had it die in 3 months. And if it did, that's what warranty and backups are for.

Having said that...unless this Inland (or ADATA) were 1/2 price of a Samsung or Crucial...I'd go with a 860 EVO or MX500.
You're not saving that much money.

 

[idontknow2254]

Alright then, thanks for your help.

 

[1LiquidPC]

Yes, price is a big factor here. Coincidentally, I just ordered an 860 EVO 500GB yesterday for about $88 grand total, free shipping, ect. Using to fix/update a laptop for a friend that the HDD appears to have died.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah, that's a Samsung drive though. This is a bargain barrel product. There are going to be significant quality differences. This drive is not going to have the kind of lifespan that a Samsung EVO drive has, not even the old crappy 840 EVO in all probability.

Hey now...the 840's aren't crappy. My 2 x 840 EVO's now 4 years old run almost exactly as fast as a brand new 860 EVO, to within a couple of percent.
Just as when they were brand new.

My old Kingston, however...major slowdown over the years.

Well, some owners who had serious issues with them would beg to differ on that. Obviously, they weren't all that bad, but there were some real performance problems for a while there and I don't think everybody with one saw it remedied by the firmware updates. Also, I'm quite sure a lot of people who had them had NO idea that there even WERE firmware updates to fix the problem. Or that there was even A problem for that matter. LOL.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, some owners who had serious issues with them would beg to differ on that. Obviously, they weren't all that bad, but there were some real performance problems for a while there and I don't think everybody with one saw it remedied by the firmware updates. Also, I'm quite sure a lot of people who had them had NO idea that there even WERE firmware updates to fix the problem. Or that there was even A problem for that matter. LOL.

True. The firmware update fixed it.
My current Samsungs, as reported by Magician:

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, that's why I say "crappy". Since the 850 and 860 EVOs didn't have these issues, that makes the 840 "crappy" by comparison. LOL.

BUT, Samsung "crappy" is generally better than other guys "best" drives.