The 2 SSDs that had no failures? Both were MLC 2012 model years with a mid-range – $1.17/GB – price.

via How SSD power faults scramble your data | ZDNet.

Yikes!

This paper reminds us that SSDs are very new technology whose idiosyncracies are still being engineered around. We’re still 5 years away from the average enterprise SSD being as reliable as the average enterprise hard drive is today.