Question I'm looking for a program to extend the life of my SSD hard drives.

[uberman]

I just put in 2 two terrabyte SSDs at a cost of $555.00 so I want to take care of them. A couple years ago I put in a free program that had the SSD discontinue some activities that are rough on SSDs. I had to sign up for the program in order to download or license it. Then the program just ran in the background where it was pretty much unnoticeable.
I'm just looking for the same or similar.

 

[mikeymikec]

What roles do the SSDs have in your system? Is one a boot drive? If so, the program you mentioned (assuming it's not complete and utter snake oil) might do a few things to the Windows configuration like disable indexing on a Windows-installed partition (which IMO is still a waste of time unless this drive is going to see a lot of constant data migration), but I can't imagine it would have much to do on a purely user data drive (or say one with games installed).

Presumably you have a reason for buying two such large drives, so it would probably be a good idea to examine how you're going to be using them if you want to 'take care of them'.

 

[UsandThem]

No utility like that is needed (or recommended) anymore.

You can change some default Windows hard drive activities, but once again it's just not needed (or recommended).

Here's my 850 EVO that's the SSD in my laptop, and that I've owned now for 4-5 years now. It has close to 12,000 power on hours, and you can see how low the writes have been on it, and I've done nothing to alter/limit change Windows 10 default processes.

 

[mikeymikec]

@UsandThem

You ought to update CrystalDiskInfo. The wear level reading on the big blue button is incorrect as you can see if you check the attribute 'wear levelling count'. I have two Samsung PRO SSDs that I noticed a similar change in CrystalDiskInfo when updating from 6.x to the latest version.

 

[UsandThem]

@UsandThem

You ought to update CrystalDiskInfo. The wear level reading on the big blue button is incorrect as you can see if you check the attribute 'wear levelling count'. I have two Samsung PRO SSDs that I noticed a similar change in CrystalDiskInfo when updating from 6.x to the latest version.

Good catch.

I generally use Samsung Magician for readings, but I keep CrystalDiskInfo to use on things like external drives and such.

But yeah, the SSD is now down to 98% in the health department. I guess it might be time to retire it.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

No utility like that is needed (or recommended) anymore.

May even be counterproductive, depending on what exactly it does.

For consumer workloads SSD lifetime is not an issue anymore. They'll likely last longer then the rest of the system.

 

[killster1]

i overprovision my drives and leave some space incase i manage to fill them to full. I use a diff drive to download and extract to as well so my OS drive doesnt get hammered to much yet the stuff still extracts and repairs fast.

 

[uberman]

Thanks some of you know what I'm talking about. Yes, I do remember "indexing" was one of the things it restricted or put a stop to. There were 3 to 5 things it stopped or curtailed which it claimed were shortening the life of SSDs. This took place about 3 years ago.
You may be right though, such programs might have been discontinued.
Someone was concerned why I use large hard drives. It is the nature of my work that I'll disappear for 1 to 6 months at a time at a moments notice. I like my music and entertainment. I'm always deleting things with a 1tb SSD. Now I use 2tb SSDs in order to keep my entertainment and still have space.
I used the Seagate Barracuda SSD 2tb. They're $250.00 and tax and shipping.