Would this kill my SSD quick ?

[pcslookout]

Is it ok to put a VM on a SSD ?

Any disadvantages ?

 

[Elixer]

I run 2 VMs on a SSD, so, yes, that is fine for them.
Disadvantages compared to what?
If you are worried about writes, then use a MLC SSD, and don't sweat it, just don't go crazy by writing 500GB/day and expect it to last the same as someone writing 50GB/day.

 

[nerp]

Think of an SSD the same way you think of an HDD. Suddenly all these questions go away.

 

[frowertr]

^

Buy good brands like Samsung and Intel and start using the thing. People seem to think they are fragile but I've found that the above two name brands are anything but.

 

[bononos]

How much writes can a hard drive take compared to a SSD ?

Quite a lot more if its an enterprise drive I think. I was told a long time back that enterprise drives were different and were more beefed up compared to ordinary consumer drives when I asked a rep why server drives were much more expensive. Theres an Intel writeup from 2008 which says enterprise drives are rated for high workloads and not rated for sitting idle most of the time.
http://download.intel.com/support/m...e_class_versus_desktop_class_hard_drives_.pdf
WD says its current Gold and RE server/datacenter drives are rated for 550Tb/year. SE is 180Tb/yr.

Even if consumer ssd's can last for a few hundred Terabytes of writes, the performance does decrease with its degraded state according the the data from the endurance testing from Techreport.

edit-

Seagate consumer desktop drives rated for 8x5 55tb/yr, NAS drives 7x24 180tb/yr.
http://www.seagate.com/as/en/products/desktop-storage/desktop-internal-drives/

 

[pcslookout]

So far wrote 411 GB to my Samsung 850 Pro 512GB.

I am driving myself crazy worrying about this lol.

 

[nerp]

So far wrote 411 GB to my Samsung 850 Pro 512GB.

I am driving myself crazy worrying about this lol.

After years of worrying and nothing happening you'll eventually stop worrying.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

^

Buy good brands like Samsung and Intel and start using the thing. People seem to think they are fragile but I've found that the above two name brands are anything but.

"A poor man can't afford a cheap suit."

So far, I have adhered to that recommendation: you can't afford to spend your money on crap.

We're also looking at M.2 and PCI-express SSDs, using bandwidth from the PCI-E bus. Not entirely very cheap at the moment.

I just took a chance on an ADATA SP550, and would've looked again at Samsung or Crucial but for the ADATA specs and other features. Taken with a grain of salt to be sure, the Egg customer reviews seemed encouraging. 480GB for about $110. No problems yet; the drive has been in the system for a couple months now. And that's about 25% of what I'd spent on a 500GB 840-Pro in early 2014.

And . . so far . . . it shows about 1.4TB of accumulated writes. Since this includes the cloning of a Win 7 OS and the installation of a Win 10 on a separate partition, and since the last time I looked at it two weeks ago when it was about 1.29TB, I could be writing more than 200GB/month. Suppose it's really double that; suppose I'm writing 5TB per annum. The drive will still be pre-adolescent after 5 years.