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    SSD Question

    and im not unhappy with the corsair psu as its your seasonic relabeled, but yours is slightly newer slightly tweaked with slightly nicer stats and only costs slightly more, so i would have gotten yours if they had had it in stock :) our systems are kinda alike anyway, i have a 2600k, that asus...
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    i know the board revision and the chipset stepping are different numbers, chipset stepping is named by intel and the board revision is made up by asus. i was just wondering cause on the box it says on several different places 'P8P67 DELUXE REV 3.0 - New B3 Revision' and the bios (build 1503, the...
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    what im wondering is if theyll be able to increase the write cycles on mlc as they seem to be focussing on those at the moment or if cheaper slc will become mainstream in the future. if you use a desktop its kinda annoying but you can work around it by doing most writing on that megnetic drive...
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    yeah i had to use that about:config in firefox to do that but i did. however theres some stuff that windows writes on c: and i cant change also there are programs thatll write stuff on c: even when i install them on d: i think ill just stop worrying about the ssd, use it till it fails, by then...
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    na its not that i thought i knew better than microsoft, ive just never had any defrags or virus scans on auto and used to do any of that whenever i felt like it. i found out i couldnt preset any defrags on c: after i read that it wasnt good for ssds. i wasnt trying to outsmart microsofts...
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    no, now that i know theres no benefit i wont. it just doesnt seem like much of a deal anymore that i did twice. thanks for worrying :). also, very nice psu you got there, i got a corsair ax750 because they didnt have yours on stock, else i would have gotten the seasonic.
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    i did some calculations, 256gb x 4500 write cycles mean with perfectly even wear i may write 1,152,000 gb on that ssd before it breaks. max write speed under perfect conditions is 330 mb/s or 1 gb/3s. assuming i write non stop 24/7 at max speed with perfectly even wear itll take exactly 40 days...
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    thank you both. i wont do either in the future. would be nice if microsoft and piriform included a warning not to use defrag/ secure erase on ssds. im sure im not the only person with a pc who doesnt/didnt know this stuff.
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    SSD Question

    hi guys, i bought a new comp, the boot drive is a plextor px-256m2s, that sata 3 256gb ssd. now i did three things, before reading on the internet that i shouldnt have. i ran ccleaner once or twice with the option securely erase free disk space, and also had windows defrag the ssd twice :( also...