While some of those Crucial drives are Micron and pretty reasonable, please beware of comparing &quot;consumer drives&quot; and drives from 2012 &#x2F; 2013 with today&#x27;s drives.<p>The real problem with drives is their firmware has to garbage collect. So, yes, you can push a drive into a corner where it can&#x27;t escape. Not to name names, but I&#x27;ve had this happen in my company&#x27;s testing of different drives. That also means there are peculiar results, such as needing to restart the drive, or let it sit for an hour, and seem much better.<p>Our experience with MLC ( managing and observing many customers&#x27; Flash deployments ) has been very positive, and when using major manufacturers&#x27; drives works very well.