SSD Benchmarks

[fastamdman]

How bad is it to run a benchmarking tool on a ssd drive? Do they really kill the life of the drive that much, should I simply not ever do the benchmark or should I run it to double check everything is in proper working condition?

I have always been a bencher but at the same time I don't want to degrade my crucial m4 64gb drive. I just want to ensure it's working the way it should, and that is what benchmarks do

Thoughts?

Also, if I should bench it, what do you guys recommend ATTO?

 

[paperwastage]

bench it once or twice. if you have stuff installed ON the drive and running benchs, the results wont be as good as the original

BRB finding you a link about how people are write-testing their SSDs, and they only died after writing LOTS of GBs/TBs/PBs...

EDIT2: anandtech forum doesn't want to behave... erroring out ... i'll give you the link when I find it

EDIT3: found it...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm&

Endurance test for SSDs. Basically, dont worry. The SSDs tested shows a wear indicator of 50% after writing > 100TB of files...for a 64GB SSD, you have to write 64GB over 1562.5 times.... if you write 64GB to your drive every day, thats still 4 years

 

[fastamdman]

With the TRIM option wouldn't this be less to worry about? I just want this crucial m4 to last a really long time, I am even thinking about grabbing another one for raid 0.

What are your guys thoughts about raiding 64gb crucial m4's?

As far as the benchmarks, which ones do you recommend. I will go run one or two and see what they say

 

[rgallant]

http://download.techworld.com/3248894/as-ssd-benchmark-16/
-I use this one as a reference on how my raid 0 is doing having no Trim.
-after a clean wipe\new it comes in at 810ish total points for my 2 intel 120gb G2's
-installed them in dec.2010 , clean wiped them in mar. 2011 when the bench showed 700ish.-went back up to 810ish.
-just ran it now and has dropped down to 700ish from mar.2011 ,so will leave as is for now .
-intel should have trim in raid support soon , if you can get the bios from your mb maker.
-I run the bench for the ssd's about once a month.

 

[fastamdman]

Well I took your advice rgallant and I downloaded as ssd benchmark.

Here are the results!

Is this normal?