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Do you care about SSD wear?

Do you care about SSD wear?

  • I'm constantly checking amount of written data

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • I'm checking it just occasionally

    Votes: 5 10.6%

  • I'm just monitoring its overall health with SMART

    Votes: 8 17.0%

  • I don't care about anything, i'm just using it

    Votes: 33 70.2%
  • Total voters
    47
Hotobu

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Jetster said:
So solid state drives wear? But theres no moving parts
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Everything wears out. Flash memory can only be written to so many times before it starts to degrade. Ideally that number is so high that it's beyond magnetic storage, but it will eventually wear out in several year's time depending on usage. The problem with SSDs failing right now isn't wear it's stability.
 
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lemonadesoda said:
I guess that also means you don't bother with backups and your PC has non-essential and replaceable data and applications. Yes, this is an OK scenario for many home users but absolutely not acceptable for business or critical files. You can't just say, let it fail, and replace under warranty, if your PC contains important data or files that could be lost.

It concerns me that manufacturers might be developing and improving SSD technology to meet "consumer speed but non essential data" scenarios rather than "fast with integrity" scenario that is what I want. We will not know for a few years... but I bet this forum will start getting the war-stories of SSD integrity in a couple years time!

BACKUP ESSENTIAL FILES. Live recklessly in the fast lane once you have backed up! :pimp:
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You just assumed a lot of shit man. If you knew who I was, you would know my primary business is running two major data centers. Not only do I backup my ssd raid onto my other home raid on a high end adaptec card, but I dump backups to a vps storage cloud at my office as well. You just made up that silly scenario without even asking me. I guess you will learn from that. Thanks for spouting out a bunch of common sense to someone who already practices what you're preaching on a higher level than yourself. :pimp:
 
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Hotobu said:
Everything wears out. Flash memory can only be written to so many times before it starts to degrade. Ideally that number is so high that it's beyond magnetic storage, but it will eventually wear out in several year's time depending on usage. The problem with SSDs failing right now isn't wear it's stability.
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Well, RAM will never wear out even if you write 200TB per day through it. Traditional HDD's, no limits as well.
 
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