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SSD and unrar/pars

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monkeyboy311

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I do a lot of par fixes and unrars of large files. Will having an SSD increase the speed of these unrars when unraring to the same disk? Will this degrade the drive faster over time?
 
If storage I/O is a current bottleneck then yes, an SSD will improve performance in this area. If your current limit on perforamance is not related to storage I/O, then the SSD will have minimal impact on this specific task. If you have a good CPU and plenty of RAM, and SSD should help.
 
monkeyboy311 said:
Will this degrade the drive faster over time?
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anything that writes to a SSD causes ware, the question is how much writing you are doing. The best IIRC was intel's with 20GB per day average. Most other manufactures do no give such a clear answer for the end user to work out usage needs.
 
Provided you have a fast CPU, the drive is likely to be the limiting factor. SSDs are fantastic for processing large data files (which don't need much CPU power). E.g. redubbing audio into HD video files, unraring, PAR checking (not so much repair as that needs loads of CPU).

Before I got my SSD, I would have to put the original video on one hard drive, the audio on a second, and then the processed file on a 3rd drive - otherwise, the drive would be thrashing like mad, and progress would be terrible.

Don't worry about wearing out your SSD. The wear-out issue is blown out of all proportion. I've been regularly doing 10 or 20 gig file runs on my SSD - typically I do about 20 gigs of writes per day. My Intel drive is now 2 years old, and SMART is saying "98% life remaining". Tests by people deliberatly setting out to kill SSDs suggests they typically last about 5x their life meter.
 
i'd get the intel out of those two choices, specially if you were to buy today (last day for the intel $70/$80 rebates)
 
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