Dell has reported that their solid state flash drives are working fine. There was a report earlier this week that said 20 to 30% of notebooks were returned because of defects. Dell has “crunched” their numbers and said they are fine. The 20 to 30% was from an earlier return report, not from a recent one.

Avian earlier this week said the return rates for notebooks with solid-state drives has been around 20 percent to 30 percent. A Dell spokeswoman says that’s just not so: the return rate actually is around 3 percent. Dell typically doesn’t talk publicly about return rates with this kind of specificity (and at the time of the original article, Dell had said it doesn’t generally comment on the issue), but the report and the coverage that surrounded it prompted the company to put some more light on the issue.

It seems these drives may be better than we thought. The only way to find out is to try one out, and let us all know.

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