SSD lifespan

[Brado78]

Hey Guys, I have a Kingston V300. I average about 2 gb a data a day. Is my SSD gonna give up the ghost before it's warranty expires?

Thanks Guys

Brad

 

[blastingcap]

Depends on size of SSD, if it's a 16GB SSD that's a lot different than 1024GB at the rate of 2GB/day. Also depends on write amplification.

Edit: sorry I missed the part about outliving warranty. Yes it will outlive the warranty as the warranty is only a few years anyway. But that's a pretty low standard.

 

[RU482]

in short, no. 2GB of data write, even on a 16GB drive, will outlive the warranty on said drive....even a V300 (failure after 1/8th DWPD over 3 years is a pretty low bar)


I assume you are not writing and erasing the LAST 2GB on the drive, meaning the "16GB" drive doesn't already have "14GB" of data on it

 

[Brado78]

RU- No I am just using it for every day computing, With a virus and malware scanner in the background. I disabled disk defragmenter if that helps. I am a newbie to an SSD

 

[Z15CAM]

The Maxtor 7200 rpm Dyna MAX IDE 80GB HDD is by far the greatest Storage HDD ever made. The Maxtor SATA's were Crap and over heated.

I've have 4 of them Maxtor IDE 80 GB still running 24/7 for over 12 years without a hiccup.

Too bad modern MB's don't have an IDE interface.

 

[RU482]

RU- No I am just using it for every day computing, With a virus and malware scanner in the background. I disabled disk defragmenter if that helps. I am a newbie to an SSD

SSDs are far more newbie friendly than ~4-5 yrs ago. they really don't require special treatment, but with higher capacity typically comes less problems in my experience (personally and more so working for hardware OEMs)

Brado, what size SSD are you working with?

 

[tweakboy]

Im @ 94 percent good ,, with diskmark . hmmmm

 

[Brado78]

RU I have a 120gb, Do I have to do anything special for it? Thanks Again. I mean $64 with free shipping...WHY NOT!! right

 

[Elixer]

RU I have a 120gb, Do I have to do anything special for it? Thanks Again. I mean $64 with free shipping...WHY NOT!! right

$64? You got ripped. You can get a 256GB for $100.
Nothing really special needs to be done, except for backing it up.

 

[VirtualLarry]

$64? You got ripped. You can get a 256GB for $100.
Nothing really special needs to be done, except for backing it up.

Just because the larger drives are cheaper per GB doesn't mean that he got ripped. It depends on how long ago he got it, and whether or not he's located in the US.

Lately, the lowest sale prices at Newegg for this drive are around $52.99.

Months ago, $59.99 was the sale price, and the regular price was higher.

 

[Brado78]

Thank You Larry , I am in Canada and unfortunately whether it is on Newegg or Amazon things are a bit more pricy :\ I bought it in November of 2014.

 

[mohit9206]

Yeah SSDs are not worth the money because they're too expensive for the benefit they provide. Where I live, a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo costs $80.

 

[Berryracer]

Yeah SSDs are not worth the money because they're too expensive for the benefit they provide. Where I live, a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo costs $80.

too expensive for the benefit they provide! LOL you have no idea what performance means! They provide an 80% increase in performance over an HDD! If you ever did run an AS SSD Benchmarks you'd cry if you saw the the 4K Random Read/Write speed of an HDD compared to even the worst HDD.

My laptop has 3 SSDs worth of $1600 USD and will blow any HDD out of the water

 

[Berryracer]

Where I live, a 120GB Samsung 850 Evo costs $80.

I bet you live in India

 

[mohit9206]

too expensive for the benefit they provide! LOL you have no idea what performance means! They provide an 80% increase in performance over an HDD! If you ever did run an AS SSD Benchmarks you'd cry if you saw the the 4K Random Read/Write speed of an HDD compared to even the worst HDD.

My laptop has 3 SSDs worth of $1600 USD and will blow any HDD out of the water

But then most normal users don't need $1600 worth of SSDs in their computer.
I know SSDs are fast but then i personally don't do anything that would warrant an SSD and neither do most people.Also they last much less than HDD. For the price of 120GB SSD, i can get a 2TB 7200rpm HDD.

I bet you live in India

Yup and hate myself for it. I wish I was born in your great country assuming you're American.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Hey Guys, I have a Kingston V300. I average about 2 gb a data a day. Is my SSD gonna give up the ghost before it's warranty expires?

Thanks Guys

Brad

Unless the controller dies or something. No.

Even my granny old first generation SSD Intel X25-M G1 80GB drive have written over 15 TB after 47365 hours. Thats roughly 300MB every hour for 5.4 years 24/7. Or 7.2GB/day. And it will be replaced this year most likely. Not because it isnt working, its just too small/not needed anymore. It could last many years still.

SSDs will outlive HDs by a large factor.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Unless the controller dies or something. No.

Even my granny old first generation SSD Intel X25-M G1 80GB drive have written over 15 TB after 47365 hours. Thats roughly 300MB every hour for 5.4 years 24/7. Or 7.2GB/day. And it will be replaced this year most likely. Not because it isnt working, its just too small/not needed anymore. It could last many years still.

SSDs will outlive HDs by a large factor.

To be fair, that "granny old" SSD, probably had 50nm or 34nm NAND, which is good for a lot more P/E cycles than modern drives.

 

[coercitiv]

To be fair, that "granny old" SSD, probably had 50nm or 34nm NAND, which is good for a lot more P/E cycles than modern drives.

And to be absurdly fair, a 64GB SSD with 2000 P\E cycles rated NAND and 4x write amplification will still last 12 years with 7GB of writes per day.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Man ssd's are so inexpensive these days that it's almost incomprehensible that someone would not want one as a boot drive.

 

[KentState]

Man ssd's are so inexpensive these days that it's almost incomprehensible that someone would not want one as a boot drive.

Agree. Personally I don't want a spinning disk again and looking forward to multi terabyte drives in the future.

 

[PhIlLy ChEeSe]

In India I'm sure the price does not out weight the benefit(not yet), HDD are almost a none factor unless they are raptors. Even those are slow now

 

[CoPhotoGuy]

The Maxtor 7200 rpm Dyna MAX IDE 80GB HDD is by far the greatest Storage HDD ever made. The Maxtor SATA's were Crap and over heated.

I've have 4 of them Maxtor IDE 80 GB still running 24/7 for over 12 years without a hiccup.

Too bad modern MB's don't have an IDE interface.

Maxtor HDD's are actually one of the worse ever made.

 

[Brado78]

My SSD is the boot drive and i have an SSHD as a secondary and it is fast!!! People who buy HDD's should go SSHD.

 

[R0H1T]

My SSD is the boot drive and i have an SSHD as a secondary and it is fast!!! People who buy HDD's should go SSHD.

Still stupidly expensive, at least in my part of the world :|

 

[Elixer]

Just because the larger drives are cheaper per GB doesn't mean that he got ripped. It depends on how long ago he got it, and whether or not he's located in the US.

Lately, the lowest sale prices at Newegg for this drive are around $52.99.

Months ago, $59.99 was the sale price, and the regular price was higher.

Heh, I was being sarcastic.