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Average Life of a good SSD

j03h4gLund

j03h4gLund

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Im new to SSD's and have read the sticky about them but didnt see anything on life expectancy for these. Assuming we're talking about a 60 or 120gb Intel SSD.. one of the top performers.

Any idea on how long this would last if I used it for my OS(win 7 64 ult) and a couple games? Also, any tips to increase the life expectancy?


Thanks!
 
my x-25 g2 80 gig has a just shy of a TB written to it and it has used 1% of its "life" up according to SMART. win7, office pro 2007 and a couple games on it.

point your browser caches and temp files at a spindle drive to reduce writes (and system speed a bit though). I made a 20 gig partition on a F3 1 TB spinpoint as the 1st partition (fastest) just for caches and temp stuff. keep as much free space on the SSD as you can for the controller to use as spare area to even the drive writes out across all NAND. ie clean up old restore points, empty the trash etc every so often.

run the intel SSD toolbox and let it do its thing once a month or so.

this works well for me. drive is 6 months old and is supposed to last till 2020 sometime according to ssdlife.
 
With the 1st gen X25-M, Intel claimed you could write 100GB per day to the 80GB model for five years before reaching the write limit of the flash. And 100GB/day is incredibly unrealistic for a desktop workload, typical user probably doesn't write more than 10GB/day, and even the heaviest users probably don't average more than 20GB/day. Assuming 20GB/day, it'd take 25 years to reach the write limit of the flash. Needless to say, it's a non-issue with a good controller and a reasonably large drive.

Just get something with a SandForce controller and you should be good to go. They have the most advanced controllers on the market currently with the lowest write amplification. Intel drives are great as well and would be a solid choice.
 
VeryCharBroiled said:
point your browser caches and temp files at a spindle drive to reduce writes (and system speed a bit though). I made a 20 gig partition on a F3 1 TB spinpoint as the 1st partition (fastest) just for caches and temp stuff. keep as much free space on the SSD as you can for the controller to use as spare area to even the drive writes out across all NAND. ie clean up old restore points, empty the trash etc every so often.
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Another option is to use a RAM drive - I use this for my internet cache. Its even faster than an SSD, and will save quite a bit of wear and tear. Probably not big enough as a general temp folder for everything, but good for internet cache. I use a 128MB RAM drive, and limit the amount of temporary space the browser cam use to 100 MB.
 
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