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Vishnu.89

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I am using a Gigabyte G41M Combo Motherboard and Core 2 Quad Q8600 and 4GB DDR3.

I am looking forward to setup a SSD as a bootdisk. I am looking to buy Samsung EVO 840 120 GB. I am a music student. So mostly study music programming.

But.I have been hearing from many forums that SSDs are very short life spaned. Its quite shocking though. Eventhough they are saying it doesn't have any moving parts inside it as per the manufacturers many reviewers ripped everything off. :eek:

If I buy a Samsung EVO 840 120 GB, my use is mostly for music production purposes, surfing, movie watching. My use of pc is mostly high. These SSDs are having life cycles. Ok, normal HDD will last within 5 years, but this much amount spend for a very low capacity model( normal consumer thinking). I am confused. The life cycles won't last more than 3 years(SSD)from some sites. and some sites saying if the drive is dead there are less chances of data retrieving.


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Vishnu.89

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vshah

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read the first anandtech link you posted. You would have to write tens of gigabytes of data to the drive every single day for a year in order to kill it. You're not going to get anywhere close to that, even if you try.


but regardless of drive type, if you are concerned about data loss you should do regular backups, an ssd is no excuse for that.
 
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h9826790

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The maths is simple. Let's say we use the result in this link you provided.

Vishnu.89 said:
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http://ssdendurancetest.com/
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the 840 Evo 120G can write 78.5T data before it wear out.

So, 78.5T = 78500G

If you want to use it as a normal HDD (5 year life span as you said)

78500G/5 = 15700G per year

15700G/365 = 43G per day

Therefore, unless you keep writing 1/3 of your SSD's capacity everyday, your SSD should function normally for more than 5 years.

The 3.95 year on another website is base on 100G data written everyday. I don't think you can achieve that in your daily use (even 43G per day is almost impossible unless you intentionally doing that).

If you can only write 10G data everyday, that means your SSD will last for about 39.5 years! Even though we use a more limiting result form ssdendurancetest.com, which the SSD still can last for 21.5 years. Let's say the error in those tests are huge and end up the SSD can only last for 10 years. I think it still more than enough. I am quite sure you already have another SSD, computer... by that time.

Also, if you can afford a SSD, most likely you can afford to have more RAM. If you can't afford it, unless your music software really need to use all the RAM. You may still use RAM disk as cache to increase your computers performance and extend the SSD's life span.
 
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BonzaiDuck

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I'd say that your actual choice of SSD size might depend on how much and what type of software you use. I've seen 120's for around ~$100 plus or minus. I've seen 240's for more by a disproportionately less number of dollars.

The advice you got from others here about reliability, though, is spot on.
 
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Vishnu.89

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I have a doubt. what is this meant by writing this much gb per day. What is this writing means( i am an amateur).
 
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h9826790 said:
The maths is simple. Let's say we use the result in this link you provided.



the 840 Evo 120G can write 78.5T data before it wear out.

So, 78.5T = 78500G

If you want to use it as a normal HDD (5 year life span as you said)

78500G/5 = 15700G per year

15700G/365 = 43G per day

Therefore, unless you keep writing 1/3 of your SSD's capacity everyday, your SSD should function normally for more than 5 years.

The 3.95 year on another website is base on 100G data written everyday. I don't think you can achieve that in your daily use (even 43G per day is almost impossible unless you intentionally doing that).

If you can only write 10G data everyday, that means your SSD will last for about 39.5 years! Even though we use a more limiting result form ssdendurancetest.com, which the SSD still can last for 21.5 years. Let's say the error in those tests are huge and end up the SSD can only last for 10 years. I think it still more than enough. I am quite sure you already have another SSD, computer... by that time.

Also, if you can afford a SSD, most likely you can afford to have more RAM. If you can't afford it, unless your music software really need to use all the RAM. You may still use RAM disk as cache to increase your computers performance and extend the SSD's life span.
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what do u meant by writing this much gb each day?
 
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Fact #1 : If the SSD drive fails completely, there is no "at home" fixes you can apply to recover your data. This makes you rely heavy on a data recovery center. With a HDD you can do the freezer trick, take apart and fix a stuck head, swap PCB's and firmware chips, etc.....

Fact#2 : If you use a SSD as a main drive, you can add a second HDD to store your media on.

Reliabilty is hit or miss. An SSD drive can fail without excess wear, just like a HDD can fail. How many SSD's are returned from someone overclocking their system and the hard drive controller is running out of spec thus corrupting the data on the SSD.
 
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Vishnu.89 said:
I have a doubt. what is this meant by writing this much gb per day. What is this writing means( i am an amateur).
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copying files to and from drive causes data to be written to it. SSDs have a limited (although very large) amount of data that can be written to them before they will die.

honestly, if you're asking the question you asked, you DO NOT need to worry about SSD endurance.
 
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BonzaiDuck said:
I'd say that your actual choice of SSD size might depend on how much and what type of software you use. I've seen 120's for around ~$100 plus or minus. I've seen 240's for more by a disproportionately less number of dollars.

The advice you got from others here about reliability, though, is spot on.
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I am using Cubase, Nuendo, FL, Protools. Mainly VSTs are used here. i mean a VST size ranges from mb to 45gb. it uses high quality samples. so if i use a vst i might select some tones from it. that particular tone has a size of a gb or more than within it( that vst whole size is 40 gb).

other than all this. i use this system for browsing net and seeing movies. these are all the main uses.
 
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Vishnu.89

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these vsts operates like placing a dll file plus library files. so my main idea is to place dll files and some necessary library files in ssd. rest library files are to planned be placed in another hdd.
 
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