Topic 'How long will my (your) SSD last?' in forum 'PC Hardware Discussion/Reviews' - dslreports.com

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:58:25 EDT

trparky posted : More interesting information. An article over at Hardware.Info has stated that the 250 GB Samsung 840 Series TLC-NAND Flash Memory SSD has reached 97.02 TB of writes and the Wear Level indicator is at 59.

So, if you write 15 GBs per day, that's...
97.02 TB = 94228.48 GB
94228.48 GB / 15 GB per day = 6281.898666666667 (6281.8987) days
6281.8987 days / 365.25 days per year = 17.20 years to reach 97.02 TBs of writes

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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:51:25 EDT

n_w95482 posted : Here's something a little different :). It's a 64 GB A-DATA Nobility N002 from my work PC. Indilinx Barefoot controller+ASMedia USB3. I haven't tried the USB side of it yet.

In other news, I received the Vertex 3's replacement today. OCZ was out of that particular model, so they sent me a Vertex 4 instead. It appears to be new, shrinkwrapped and in retail packaging.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:21:48 EDT

n_w95482 posted : All of my important stuff is on my RAID 5 setup, which is also backed up periodically to an external drive that mostly lives at my dad's house. I only lost a few non-essential things. I don't make an image of my Windows drive though, it's a good opportunity for me to clean house with a fresh install, and practice for all of the various tweaks and settings that I do on my and others machines. Your method is definitely a good idea though :).
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:05:46 EDT

trparky posted : That's one of the reasons why I do a weekly backup of the SSD drive to another drive in my computer. That way, if the SSD dies (and I certainly hope not), I can restore the whole OS and everything that was installed on it from that drive image.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:49:15 EDT

n_w95482 posted : Probably, but my point still stands: at this point, it's more likely for one to die from other causes.

As for my Vertex 3, it was just under two years old. I think it came with firmware version 2.02 or so. I updated it several times since buying it, most recently to 2.25 last fall. It worked perfectly until that night.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:12:50 EDT

trparky posted : I have a feeling that may have been caused by a firmware issue and not a NAND flash memory death. Seems that the Vertex 3 series of SSDs from OCZ has had more than a fair share of firmware issues.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:58:19 EDT

n_w95482 posted : I had somewhere between 6-10 TB written to my Vertex 3 with no issues. Everything showed it at 100% health still. It suddenly died on Friday night. None of my PCs can see it.

With the apparent longevity of NAND with modern controllers, it's probably much more likely for an SSD to die from other means.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:56:01 EDT

koitsu posted : The issue is not with your "rack". The issue is with SSDLife itself. The software is badly designed and makes stupid "logic decisions" regarding how to calculate drive ""lifetime"".

If you read their wonderfully-hidden-with-a-small-font "how do you calculate it?" page, while rolling your eyes are all the vague/ambiguous generalisations they state, you'll see that for SSDs they make the blind/moronic assumption that every SSD provides SMART attribute 0xE9 / 233. Samsung SSDs do not provide this attribute, and that's perfectly fine, because such an attribute really doesn't mean anything (especially considering how SMART and its behaviour is a black box / entirely dependent upon the coders who wrote the firmware).

This is just another example of mainstream software authors thinking they've come up with a clever way to calculate something that cannot be calculated. As I've said for years, repeat ad nauseum: SMART attributes have to be decoded by a human being who has familiarity with them and the exact model of drive; software cannot do this reliably. Do not believe the hype.

"Racks" or "enclosures" (specifically non-USB enclosures, i.e. attached via native SATA or eSATA) do not get in the way of SMART pass-through. It's when there is a converter chip (ex. USB-SATA bridges) or badly-engineered RAID controllers involved where you can potentially lose SMART visibility. Some such bridges and controllers provide "partial" SMART pass-through too (attributes can be obtained, but things like the SMART error log, SCT log, self-test log, etc. are rejected. Great firmware/BIOS design on the part of the hardware vendors! Sigh...)
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:22:17 EDT

Octavean posted : I guess SSDLife doesn't like the dual 2.5" rack my Samsung 840 is installed in. Maybe that is why there isn't much info. I'll try it without the rack down the line.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:45:49 EDT

kingdome74 posted : My baby Adata

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:40:51 EDT

Octavean posted :

said by Octavean:

The free version of SSD-Life doesn't support more then one SSD. In this system I have a 500GB Samsung 840 and a 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 (no HDD). The program only gives info on the Corsair though,.....

I installed a dual 2.5" rack in a 3.5" bay which makes the SSD units more or less removable. So now I guess I can use SSD-Life on the Samsung. It was a cheap rack though and it will cut the speed down from SATA 6G to SATA 3G but I knew that going in.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:06:37 EDT

Vchat20 posted : So to add to this, my drive dropped to 99% health yesterday according to SSDLife and has over tripled it's TEC date. Obviously I don't expect it to last to this exact date and more than likely will replace it before its original 2021 TEC.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:28:09 EDT

trparky posted : Milestone - 1024 Hours (March 11, 2013)

The drive is now up to 1024 hours and at that point the power went out in the lab due to a snow storm. While unplanned, the power outage worked out well for our test because we needed to power down the drive in order to test the transistor gates. As NAND flash wears the gate walls thin and the ability for the SSD to hold a charge diminishes. We can now program the host system to power down every 1,000 hours and keep power from the SSD for 72 hours. As of hour 1024, the Samsung 840 250GB SSD is perfectly fine.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:43:28 EDT

Dustyn posted :

said by Anonymous_:

that software is not usable my drive since it's OEM,model 810 is not compatible with that software

Some magician! :D

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:23:09 EDT

Dream Killer posted : My X-25 G1 that I bought when it came out at the end of 2008 is still showing up as "99%" health in crystal disk info. It's in a frequently used gaming desktop with lots of reformats, used as a scratch disk for photoshop as well as multiple on-off cycles during the day. I didn't optimize the OS in anyway beyond the default "set the bios to AHCI".

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:33:04 EDT

hitachi369 posted : working mine like a dog.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:37:34 EDT

MxxCon posted : Hmmm..

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 5.4.0 (C) 2008-2013 hiyohiyo »crystalmark.info/
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 (1) OCZ-VERTEX4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Model : OCZ-VERTEX4
        Firmware : 1.5
   Serial Number : 
       Disk Size : 128.0 GB (8.4/128.0/128.0)
     Buffer Size : >= 32767 KB
     Queue Depth : 32
    # of Sectors : 250069680
   Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
       Interface : Serial ATA
   Major Version : ACS-2
   Minor Version : ----
   Transfer Mode : SATA/600
  Power On Hours : 995 hours
  Power On Count : 81 count
     Host Writes : 1587 GB
     Temparature : Unknown
   Health Status : Good (100 %)
        Features : S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ, TRIM
       APM Level : ----
       AAM Level : ----

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 __6 __0 __0 000000000006 Raw Read Error Rate
03 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin Up Time
04 100 100 __0 000000000000 Start Stop Count
05 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
09 100 100 __0 0000000003E3 Power-On Hours
0C 100 100 __0 000000000051 Power Cycle Count
E8 100 100 __0 0000C66617C8 Total Count of Write Sectors
E9 100 __0 __0 000000000064 Remaining Life

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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:41:54 EDT

Rook008 posted :

said by MxxCon:

said by Ghastlyone:

My Vertex 4...

Interesting that your drive 'worked' more and supposedly will live longer than mine. :huh:

Now I'm curious about that too... :D
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:50:47 EDT

Octavean posted : Too bad, maybe try another utility,.....

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:43:21 EDT

Anonymous_ posted : that software is not usable my drive since it's OEM,model 810 is not compatible with that software
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:09:49 EDT

MxxCon posted :

said by Ghastlyone:

My Vertex 4...

Interesting that your drive 'worked' more and supposedly will live longer than mine. :huh:
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:35:11 EDT

Octavean posted : Indeed it (v4.0) does as well as Win XP and Vista support. Version 3.2, the only other version visible on the support page, does not have Windows 8 support though.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:18:17 EDT

trparky posted : Samsung's Magician Software v4.0 also works on Windows 7.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:09:42 EDT

Octavean posted :

said by Anonymous_:

ssd life does not work on samsung drives very well

Says data written GB 15,056,686,937

that is 15 exabyte :D

Well I can't get it to work with the installed 500GB Samsung 840 SSD anyway unless maybe I switch its SATA port location. That's too much trouble IMO for a free program so I installed the Windows 8 version of Samsung's Magician Software v4.0 utilities.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:51:20 EDT

Anonymous_ posted : ssd life does not work on samsung drives very well

Says data written GB 15,056,686,937

that is 15 exabyte :D
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:31:00 EDT

Octavean posted : The free version of SSD-Life doesn't support more then one SSD. In this system I have a 500GB Samsung 840 and a 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 (no HDD). The program only gives info on the Corsair though,.....

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:00 EDT

markf posted : I have 2 OCZ's (one Agility, not sure the other one). The first is almost a year old, the second close to that too.

Both have run well for me.

The one on my laptop has 5.7TB read, 3.3TB written, health 100%, 1854 hours in 1360 power ons. The boot drive on my HTPC has to have many more hours than that and maybe even more read/write because it was the only drive for a couple of months while I waited for WD RMA replacement drive (after the HDD failed in less than 2 years).

(My HTPC drive has 5483 hours and still 100%)

Both drives expected to last until summer 2021

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:56:44 EDT

ImpldConsent posted :

said by koitsu:

It depends on how the vendor chooses to implement storage of the SMART attribute data. For example, on some (not necessarily all) Intel SSDs, attributes 241 and 242 RAW_VALUE columns track the number of 32MBytes (more specifically 32MiBs) read/written. Use smartmontools, it has proper decoding for this.

TY. Then it looks like OCZ is correctly displaying the conversions. I compared the smartmontools output to what OCZ Toolbox and it works. Thx again. My fuzzy math sees 349days of 2.56GB writes daily and 12.65GB reads daily. It'll take me a minute or two to get to 100TB writes :D
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:02:37 EDT

Anonymous_ posted : Samsung SSD PM810 128GB

so far
1.58TB READ
1.79TB write.
Power on count 1,003
Power on Hours 3,448

What do i win for having the most power on counts?

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:50:11 EDT

anon posted : I have owned two OCZ Vertex drives and they both failed within hours of installation . I replaced with Intel 520 series, which is still working one yeat later.
In the past month, I bought two Intel 335 series drives for two WIN 7 installs. Am very happy with all of the Intel drives so far. They work and are fast, ad well as run cool.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:48:53 EDT

scanchain posted :

said by koitsu:

said by cpsycho:

All depends on the writes to the same NAND cells so to speak. More writes to the same spot will kill the drive faster.

False. *sigh*

Right. Firmware will prevent you from writing to the same block repeatedly. This is the function of wear leveling and garbage collection.

The SSDs currently in the market uses BCH for error correction. When the NAND flash gets "worn" out, there would be increasing raw read errors; when the point is reached where the correction power of BCH is exceeded, the user will start seeing uncorrectable read errors.

The next generation controllers for SSD will use LDPC for error correction. LDPC can benefit from soft information which can be generated by performing multiple reads with shifted read reference voltages. It is expected that controllers with LDPC will prolong the life of SSDs when used with TLC NAND devices.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:43:00 EDT

trparky posted : Myself, I'll probably upgrade the SSD to a larger capacity SSD in three of so years. Programs get bigger, drives get faster, latencies get lower. All of these are reasons why in a few years you're going to possibly want a larger SSD. It's like anything, things get better.

I have a 250 GB SSD and I use it for a lot of my programs for instant boot and instant program launch. Things like web browsers and utilities get installed on the SSD. Games are installed on the HDD.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:24:51 EDT

Vchat20 posted :

said by Boricua65:

I was looking into replacing the SATA drive for an SSD on my Latitidue D830 and use the DVD drive bay as an extra hard drive, since I don't use the DVD burner that much. Now, if only I had the money to buy me an SSD. :huh:

This is pretty much how I did my Inspiron E1505. SSD in the main HDD slot and a larger HDD in the optical bay with the proper adapter. Works a treat. And thanks to Win 7 and 8 being easy as pie to install from a USB flash drive, lack of a DVD drive should not be an issue. :)

Should note that SSD's are becoming increasingly cheaper. My 60GB OCZ Solid3 I bought October of 2011 cost me around $125. These days you can get the same for around half the price or a 120-128GB for the same price.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:00:09 EDT

Boricua65 posted : Thank you everyone. This is valuable information, and thank you for dispelling the myth of premature failure. I, too, fell into the trap of listening to naysayers of how they will fail quickly. From all the info I've just read here (and seeing the uploaded stats), I surmise getting an SSD for my laptop (and possibly desktop) would last a lot longer than I thought otherwise. This is good news.

I was looking into replacing the SATA drive for an SSD on my Latitidue D830 and use the DVD drive bay as an extra hard drive, since I don't use the DVD burner that much. Now, if only I had the money to buy me an SSD. :huh:
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:17:54 EDT

koitsu posted :

said by cpsycho:

All depends on the writes to the same NAND cells so to speak. More writes to the same spot will kill the drive faster.

False. *sigh*
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:05:48 EDT

aurgathor posted : SSDs are very different, and what you can do with a failed SSD depends a lot on the failure mode. You need to forget about freezing and think about something else.

If there are worn out cells there's probably not much that can be done to retrieve data from those -- at least partial data loss. This can be a result of an end of life wearout, so this is a normal failure mode that will happen sooner or later unless the SSD is replaced. Given that in normal usage SSDs are expected to last 10+ years, they're likely to be replaced due to small size and/or obsolescence well before cells start wearing out en masse.

If the whole flash chip bites the dust (i.e. ESD damage) for all practical purposes, all data on said chip is gone -- that means at least a partial data loss, but if the flash chips are interleaved for higher through put, it can also mean complete data loss.

If the controller chip bites the dust, in theory it can be removed and replaced and the SSD should be fully functional with the data intact. Note, "should" doesn't mean "will", and replacing BGA chips is not easy, to say the least.

If it's a firmware bug (as was the case in the SSDs I wrecked) the result depends on many things and it can vary from total loss to full recovery.

Due to the lack of moving parts, I consider SSDs more reliable than MHDDs, but if you have valuable data, you should keep a backup, no matter what.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:50:55 EDT

cpsycho posted : All depends on the writes to the same NAND cells so to speak. More writes to the same spot will kill the drive faster. I was thinking of using one in a pfsense box until I started looking at the logging system. I figured I would have killed the drive in under two years in that setup.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:22:46 EDT

MaynardKrebs posted :

said by aurgathor:

The SSDs I wrecked accumulated bad sectors, so in a real life usage that could've meant some data loss, the exact amount depending on the number of bad sectors and on their location.

In those cases, once the SSDs reached a certain limit, they wouldn't boot any more, Win8 would enter into an infinite repair cycle, etc.

So the big question in that case is - will freezing the SSD drive allow you to recover data which has not been backed up?

Freezing a failing/failed mechanical drive for 24 hours often is enough to get get it working to the point where you can extract data for 15-20 minutes until it really warms up again.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:59:56 EDT

markf posted : Not sure what the huge fuss about SSD life is all about...

I have one in each of my computers as a boot drive (the one in my laptop is my everything drive). I recently built a PC for a friend and here's the way I look at it:

For a consumer grade drive (for a desktop), 120GB - 128GB is sufficient as a boot drive. That'll set you back about $100 (Samsung, can't remember the model). The difference between the i3 and i5 CPUs we were looking at was about $100.

So if you're looking to spend that $100, is an SSD more beneficial than an i5 for an average consumer machine?

That $100 will disappear quickly in the CPU as more powerful CPUs come out, so who cares if the SSD lasts only 5 or so years, isn't the speed increase worth it?

My friend is amazed by the difference the SSD made in his machine. Pretty much instant on (in Windows 8) with very good performance. That machine will get a mid cycle CPU upgrade ($50 on eBay in a couple of years) before the SSD needs any attention.

I know that my 2.5 year old i3 370M SSD performs better than my wife's 4 month old i5 HDD(cant' remember which CPU, 3rd gen though) laptop. For the base level SSD's, there is value. I would be more concerned about spending $400 on a 512GB drive, but at the 256GB and less ($200 or less) level, a few good years is all I ask.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:42:54 EDT

Pyrion posted : Corsair Force 3 120GB, 2377 hours, 785GB read, 434GB written, no retired blocks.

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:03:26 EDT

Ghastlyone posted : My Vertex 4...

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:44:58 EDT

praetoralpha posted : I got a Vertex 4 512 gb over the summer. I reinstalled Windows 7, and I hacked the install procedure so that my "C:\Users" directory pointed to my existing hard drive; everything else on SSD. I figure that that directory is responsible for most data writes and doesn't need to have super fast times, so my SSD should last longer.

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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:47:03 EDT

Vchat20 posted : 60GB OCZ Solid 3 in my notebook here. According to SSDLife I have just hit the 9TB write mark and it is still at 100% health. Installed it as the main boot/OS drive October '11 and it is estimating TEC of March 09, 2021. As stated, even with the real cheap consumer grade drives like these under normal everyday usage (I even left the hibernate and page files alone so they lie on the SSD. 2GB RAM on a Win8 machine) the drives will die long after their usefulness.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:51:22 EDT

Mele20 posted :

said by trparky:

Yes, there's that possibly but again it all depends upon how many writes you are making to the SSD.

The point of my post is that a lot of enthusiast web sites seem to be so focused on the lifespan of the SSD. They all seem hyper about it to the point that even the mere thought of having even the slightest reduction in SSD lifespan (even theorized reduction) can make these people not want to buy a particular SSD. The thing I'm trying to drive home is that for the average home user with their average computer with average use (and that even includes us geeks here on this site), an SSD will outlive the usefulness of the SSD in the sense that we'll be looking to buy a new one for increased capacity long before the drive dies from too many writes.

So go ahead, buy the SSD. Don't worry about that number. All of the enthusiast web sites seem too focused on that number.

Hmmm....can't see why I'd be looking, during the lifetime of this computer, to buy a new larger one when I have a Samsung PM830 mSATA 256GB drive. ;) I don't know if SSD Life is any good at determining the life of this drive but it claims 8 years, 5 months.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:30:49 EDT

trparky posted : I use the SSD as the primary boot drive. I have two of them, one in my desktop and one in my notebook.

Getting an SSD, especially one of the cheaper drives such as the Samsung 840 Series (non-Pro) really is one of the best (and cheap) ways to upgrade an older computer and make it feel like new again.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:51:38 EDT

Jan Janowski posted : I'm using a 128Gb Non-Pro Samsung as Cache and Cache Database drive for video editing... It has really made a difference..
and I'll be watching this thread, too...

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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:58:10 EDT

trparky posted : Yes, there's that possibly but again it all depends upon how many writes you are making to the SSD.

The point of my post is that a lot of enthusiast web sites seem to be so focused on the lifespan of the SSD. They all seem hyper about it to the point that even the mere thought of having even the slightest reduction in SSD lifespan (even theorized reduction) can make these people not want to buy a particular SSD. The thing I'm trying to drive home is that for the average home user with their average computer with average use (and that even includes us geeks here on this site), an SSD will outlive the usefulness of the SSD in the sense that we'll be looking to buy a new one for increased capacity long before the drive dies from too many writes.

So go ahead, buy the SSD. Don't worry about that number. All of the enthusiast web sites seem too focused on that number.
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:36:20 EDT

fartness posted : If it's used in a server, it sounds like the life will be dramatically reduced, is that correct?

Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:16:45 EDT

koitsu posted :

said by ImpldConsent:

said by trparky:

Last update they posted indicates that they have written a total of 100 TBs to the drive and it's still chugging along. They will update the article with various milestone updates, the last milestone was 100 TB. They will continue to update the article until the SSD dies.

Well, already I feel GREAT. I will NEVER, EVER write near 100TB on my SSD. After 8340 power-on hours, I've read 4.4TB and written 896GB (I think ... koitsu ... is my ID 241/F1 and ID 242/F2 RAW DATA read as GB?).

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===Model Family:     Intel 320 Series SSDsDevice Model:     INTEL SSDSA2CW080G3...241 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       42034242 Host_Reads_32MiB        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4560

So for the above SSD, 42034*32 = 1,345,088 MiBs have been written, and 4560*32 = 145,920 MiBs have been read.

Another example drive, different model, but still Intel:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===Model Family:     Intel 510 Series SSDsDevice Model:     INTEL SSDSC2MH120A2...225 Host_Writes_32MiB       0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       109412

(This model does not track reads)

109412*32 = 3,501,184 MiBs, which is correct (using Intel's SSD Toolbox, the humanised value shown is "3.34TB").

But as I said, it varies per model of drive and manufacturer of drive (both things).
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Re: How long will my (your) SSD last?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:46:02 EDT

sivran posted :

said by DrModem:

It doesn't need to last forever, just long enough.

How many people are still using a computer, much less a hard drive from 2001-2003?

Even my extreme technophobe grandmother (Who barley uses a computer at all) shed her 1999 HP win98 machine almost 6 years ago.

Pretty sure my current linux box was built around 2003 or so. Same hard drives in it as when it was built. :o
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