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Paranoid re Writes to my SSD

Virgorising

Virgorising

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Hi.

Only cause precious friends here hung in and convinced me to get past my paranoia re getting an SSD, did I finally (months back) do that, and U BET, it's changed my life.

I got this fab little freeware, SSDLife. I do download tons of uTube videos, it's true, but to me, it looks as if I am writing TONS to this little drive every day.

Despite it says it will last another 9 years. Which is INSANE.

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I DO have a paranoid tendency myself, but my Sammy 840 Pro and Magician shows 1.2 TB written and status is "good." This is only a 500GB drive, which -- again -- is only half full.

I'd post the screen shot, but it would only show that same info . . .
 
BonzaiDuck said:
I DO have a paranoid tendency myself, but my Sammy 840 Pro and Magician shows 1.2 TB written and status is "good." This is only a 500GB drive, which -- again -- is only half full.

I'd post the screen shot, but it would only show that same info . . .
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Thank God.....I need more paranoid pundits so I feel less crazy!!!!😀

For me, given this is 240GB, 500 seems like a dream. I like yours is half full I work hard to keep mine less than half full....very good for these puppies.

Bless you for being paranoid, I feel BETTER.()🙂

How this freeware assesses this drive has 9 more years of function I simply do not know.
 
Yeah... no. Relax.

The M500 is rated for 72TB of lifetime writes. Looks like you're averaging under 10GB/day. So that's 7200 days.

Based on the numbers from the SSD endurance experiment, you can expect a lot more than 72TB of writes.

See you in 20 years.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Yeah... no. Relax.

The M500 is rated for 72TB of lifetime writes. Looks like you're averaging under 10GB/day. So that's 7200 days.

Based on the numbers from the SSD endurance experiment, you can expect a lot more than 72TB of writes.

See you in 20 years.
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THANK YOU!:thumbsup: Esp for the rating for the M500!!!!

Wish I weren't addicted to the downloading of the uTube vids....some, movie length. Bet that comprises most of what I write!

Just ran it again, today I wrote 3GBs. I write tons in WORD, but that adds up to not much. Gotta cut back on the utube download addiction.()🙂
 
dude you're more than fine... always funny how ppl stress about their $80 to $500 ssd and that it may not last for several years - the consternation is understandable in using your money you earned through your labor on a product you want to last... but holy damn it's really trivial

look at your car in your garage that cost several thousands of dollars that depreciates and will eventually break down causing you to get another


ssd... really... just use the crap out of it and enjoy the blazing speed!!!
 
I would not worry too much about writes in a standard workstation environment. Just disable defrag, swap and other stuff that needlessly writes to the disk. Some people insist that you still need swap so just make it really small or put it on a spindle drive.

The nice thing about SSDs is there is less chance of it randomly failing due to lack of moving parts. I use it as an OS drive in all my servers so I don't have to worry about setting up hardware raid. The actual data goes on software raid arrays using spindle drives.
 
I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I'm at 712GB Host Writes on this X25-M G2 in my laptop, and I expect it to outlast the laptop, quite frankly.
 
Getting an SSD is the best upgrade I've ever done. I keep my infrequently used downloads on a separate spindle disk.
 
scary - i've had my kingston for 8 months and it's already at 92% life.

(i admit it was cheap, it was still worth it)

it's telling me the expected life is until 2023, but at this rate it will be dead in 2 years.. or less. well.. depending on what "life" means.

i frankly expected this less-than-1-year old SSD to have zero errors.
 
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scary - i've had my kingston for 8 months and it's already at 92% life.

(i admit it was cheap, it was still worth it)

it's telling me the expected life is until 2023, but at this rate it will be dead in 2 years.. or less. well.. depending on what "life" means.

i frankly expected this less-than-1-year old SSD to have zero errors.
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What makes you think that it has errors?
 
Red Squirrel said:
I would not worry too much about writes in a standard workstation environment. Just disable defrag, swap and other stuff that needlessly writes to the disk. Some people insist that you still need swap so just make it really small or put it on a spindle drive.

The nice thing about SSDs is there is less chance of it randomly failing due to lack of moving parts. I use it as an OS drive in all my servers so I don't have to worry about setting up hardware raid. The actual data goes on software raid arrays using spindle drives.
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Thank U. I din do away with swap totally, I just made it smaller. I do have 8GBs of DDR3, but I was afraid to do away with it totally, it made me nervous.
 
i didnt screenshot it, but i will later when i get back from work; when running ssdlife, there is a s.m.a.r.t button, and the first line on top of the list is "errors",and the value isn't 0. so..
 
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i didnt screenshot it, but i will later when i get back from work; when running ssdlife, there is a s.m.a.r.t button, and the first line on top of the list is "errors",and the value isn't 0. so..
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Thank U....no need for screenie, I will hit that. I already get if I didn't compulsively download big uTube vids, I would be fine.

Last days after we saw movie Jersey Boys and I fell in love with Frankie Valli, I have downloaded every single relevant uTube video from the 60s on, then converted and burned all of them to DVDs. That alone was mega GBs.
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K did ran it and made screenie. Yesterday I got the pro version cause I was paranoid. Not sure what any of this means, but undepected power loss is creepy. But the top one is zero.
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Late edit: Hold on! See all the 64s? In every event it says 64 is the worst value. I have no clue at all.


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I've seen so many hard drives die that I jumped on SSDs as soon as they were affordable. Having no finely-tuned mechanical parts is a good thing. I think it's just scary to people to see a part lifetime listed so precisely. Sure you'd see drives before with MTBF but that wasn't helpful at all to an individual so for the most part people ignored that.
 
My very first SSD, an Intel 80GB X25 Gen 1 drive still has 93% of its available wear available. Its been in my main PC, then relegated to my work laptop where it got a lot more abuse, then into a work machine where it was abused even more, out to india into a different work machine in a very hot place, then back and into another work place in an eSata enclosure and now it sits on my NAS as the boot and system drive. This thing will probably be living and working in the world longer than I am, it will probably outlast the SATA connection itself by some margin.
 
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Anyone have a Plextor drive? I have an M3 256GB, had it for probably almost 2 years. I leave my computer on a lot... it has 13,318 hours on it but I can't for the life of me get to see the read/write details with SSDlife, plextools, crystaldiskinfo etc, none of them show me that data.
 
chin311 said:
Anyone have a Plextor drive? I have an M3 256GB, had it for probably almost 2 years. I leave my computer on a lot... it has 13,318 hours on it but I can't for the life of me get to see the read/write details with SSDlife, plextools, crystaldiskinfo etc, none of them show me that data.
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Does your SATA controller not implement SMART monitoring? What kind of computer, etc.?
 
Like the OP, I can't get total hist writes, only % life, with an M500. With almost a year of not caring about conserving writes, it still hasn't dropped by 1%. My other SSDs have not gotten any meaningful amount of writes, in comparison.
 
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