Bought a Mercury Extreme Pro SSD for my 2011 MacBook Pro. The drive failed after only 14 days. The failure mode is interesting- rather than completely locking up, it will work for about 30 seconds and then stop. So, I am able to boot from the drive, but just browsing around in the finder for will cause it to lock up after a few more seconds. Relocating it to an external case and connecting via firewire produces the same result. Able to access it to read or write for about 30 seconds and then it dies.
I have no idea about the overall reliability of these drives or what might have caused this. I have bought one and it has failed so for me, that's a %100 failure rate. And I lost a bit of data between the Time Machine backups when it failed.
For that reason, I will no longer use Sandforce based drives. And since unmanaged drives are even less trustworthy, that means Intel and possibly crucial seem to be the only viable choices. (My previous SSD was an Intel.)
I have no idea about the overall reliability of these drives or what might have caused this. I have bought one and it has failed so for me, that's a %100 failure rate. And I lost a bit of data between the Time Machine backups when it failed.
For that reason, I will no longer use Sandforce based drives. And since unmanaged drives are even less trustworthy, that means Intel and possibly crucial seem to be the only viable choices. (My previous SSD was an Intel.)