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Terminius_Est  Title: Moon River
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Mine's going on 4 years now and, with perfect 20/20 hindsight, I wish I had bit the bullet and bought a bigger ssd so I could have more games on it.
Nothing is wrong except it's taking longer for Trim to work, but that's 15 seconds instead of 10.
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Locuus  Posts: 124
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SSD manufacturers rate their lifespan anywhere from 1 200 000 to 2 000 000 hours, Which is not a real number but calculated using some funky extrapolations.
I believe a regular HDD is rated at around 83 000 MTBF.
If we take the manufacturers' number as gospel, then a SSD rated at 1 200 000 MTBF used 10 hrs a day should last about 324 years. Let's call the SSD number a dirty lie and divide the number by 10 - we get 120 000 hrs, which is still 1.5 times the rated life of an HDD, or 32.4 yrs in our example.
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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
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Don't really think SSD have been around long enough to have a good answer to that. It does depend on how often you right to the SSD drive and how full it is.
I suspect many SSDs will outlive their usefulness before they die of natural causes. Of course there is the chance an SSD will die early from unnatural causes.
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Palvati Posts: 37
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wait.. what... a regular HD has 20 years life rate? wtf... that can't be average... that would be at best... I don't think I had any active HD get past 5 years...
as for SSD, unless there is some unnatural cause for it to go bad (heat, power surge, shock, etc) I can actually believe that it can function 50-100 years since there is no moving parts (no disk).
Now I didn't study the structure of a ssd like I did with normal hd, so I can't be for sure tot
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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Ravynmagi posted:
Don't really think SSD have been around long enough to have a good answer to that. It does depend on how often you right to the SSD drive and how full it is.
I suspect many SSDs will outlive their usefulness before they die of natural causes. Of course there is the chance an SSD will die early from unnatural causes.
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Locuus Posts: 124
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Palvati posted:
wait.. what... a regular HD has 20 years life rate? wtf... that can't be average... that would be at best... I don't think I had any active HD get past 5 years...
as for SSD, unless there is some unnatural cause for it to go bad (heat, power surge, shock, etc) I can actually believe that it can function 50-100 years since there is no moving parts (no disk).
Now I didn't study the structure of a ssd like I did with normal hd, so I can't be for sure tot
Haha yeah, that's why I said we better divide the manufacturer's rated MTBF by 10 hehe. I still have HDDs that I have been using for 6 years, and I generally replace them not because they break, but because of technology and capacity advancements.
Also I have no idea what is considered a dead SSD - when some of it cells die? When all cells die or when a certain portion die?
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IvanDF Title: Veni, vidi, vici
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Registered: 2004-11-28 11:24:08
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Palvati posted:
wait.. what... a regular HD has 20 years life rate? wtf... that can't be average... that would be at best... I don't think I had any active HD get past 5 years...
as for SSD, unless there is some unnatural cause for it to go bad (heat, power surge, shock, etc) I can actually believe that it can function 50-100 years since there is no moving parts (no disk).
Now I didn't study the structure of a ssd like I did with normal hd, so I can't be for sure tot
You have never had a HD last longer than5 years? I have had plenty last that long, and at work we have a lot of pc's out in the field that are older than 5 years.
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Lonestar_1  Posts: 259
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I got an old cheetah drive from like '99/'00 or something that still ran when I finally decided to scrap an old PC that was in the closet. It did show its age, but it did not give me lots of scsi errors.
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Palvati Posts: 37
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IvanDF posted:
You have never had a HD last longer than5 years? I have had plenty last that long, and at work we have a lot of pc's out in the field that are older than 5 years.
not 5 year straight. If it didn't break, it was upgraded and stored away on a box until I build another computer. I don't think I had any of them run 5 straight years. I do have working HDs that are older than 5 years. Especially with PATA to SATA changes.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Palvati posted:
as for SSD, unless there is some unnatural cause for it to go bad (heat, power surge, shock, etc) I can actually believe that it can function 50-100 years since there is no moving parts (no disk).
And possibly the number one unnatural killer of SSD drives are firmware issues.
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