Kingston SSDNow S100 Series SS100S2

It is an SSD

Failed for good just outside of warranty... started failing by being invisible to the system sometimes after about a year

I'm trying to find one. Initial RMA process was bad, then was good, now it's really really bad

So, after posting my first review here, I got a quick response from Kingston - I shipped my drive in, and they sent one back next day - awesome! What was really bad is the replacement was bad - like, they didn't even test the replacement they sent me,...

cheap

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Fast ; Cheap ; I got my $10 rebate check in a timely manner ; Excellent RMA Service (it is fast, faster than newegg's fast) ; The second one gave sines of failure (failure to boot occasionally) I was able to make a backup without error

Insanely unreliable ; I never even wrote 16gb to any of these drive before it failed ; 1st lasted a week ; 2ed lasted 7 months ; 3ed lasted 56 days ; You have to pay RMA shipping, but they do ship your replacement via FedEx overnight ; When I setup the...

Operated 24/7 for close to a year, no issues

Not as fast as current-gen SSD

Working in my 24/7 DVR without a problem. I do use an external drive for this 14 camera system, so much of the write burden is off loaded. Still, 24/7 operation without a problem so far is earns 5 eggs

None as of this writing. So many negative revues, so I had to write this one positive revue after using it for more than 10 months

Fast and Quiet (SSDs are expensive technology one year ago) ; 226 MB/s reading ; I set this disk noatime, nodiratime, discard on my Linux Ubuntu box I also set a different elevator, my system boots in 7 seconds ; I got this SSD disk to try the new...

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Worked great when it was working

I bought this as a boot drive for my home Ubuntu based server. I originally bought it at the beginning of June 2011, but didn't assemble the server until a month later. I installed the OS and started setting things up, a day later I was constantly...

I just purchased and am hoping the firmware update will resolve all issues people have posted about ; http://www.kingston.com/support/ssdnow/s100_firmware.asp

Hopefully I won't regret buying

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Drive gave up after just 4 months of use. Drive was used in very low read/write application so no real excuse for if dying as prematurely as it did. After doing some digging Kingston recognizes a problem with this drive yet gives you the runaround when...