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I am storing music on a SATA SSD for playback. Does it matter if the drive is filled 100% if the files are only going to be read? I suspect not , but I would like other opinions.
I am storing music on a SATA SSD for playback. Does it matter if the drive is filled 100% if the files are only going to be read? I suspect not , but I would like other opinions.
So. What happens to a segment that is written to once and then read multiple times? Can the segment go bad? Does the controller sense that the segment is failing and rewrite that segment to another segment? Over time, will 20-30% of segments, written to once, go bad? Does it all depend on which controller is used?
Must be great music software because that's a ton of hardware value and electricity to throw at merely playing music.Just to expand. I have an ASUS H370 MATX board with an Intel Core I-3 8100 chip. It is in a 2-U rackmount case. In the M2 slots I have installed a 500GB Samsung 970 Pro and a Samsung 2TB 860. I am using the onboard video. The PSU is a high end Seasonic, which I have had good luck with in the past. The purpose of this system is to be a music "jukebox". I installed the OS and the music software on the 970 Pro C: drive. And Samsung Magician. The 860 SATA drive will only be used for music files. I removed the hard drive cages to open up the interior of the case. I have 2 80mm Noctua fans at the front of the case and a Noctua chip cooler. The PSU and the cage for the 5 1/4 drives are to the other side. In operation the system is extremely quiet. It is no louder than a CD player. This unit is installed in my music system.
My intent was to build a long term system. At this point in my life, I suspect that this will be the last such system that I will build. I don't think that I will ever reach the endurance limits of the 970 Pro. I don't have the 860 hardly filled but I continue to add music. With the 860 being used basically as a read only disc I don't think that I would ever reach its endurance limits. I was concerned with how much of its capacity I could utilize before it affected its functionality in this situation.
I thank everyone for their contributions.