Thank you, I already save all of my data to a separate drive, so everything that goes on the SSD is trivial and retrievable (such as purchased apps, etc). I really need this SSD to last a long time, though, as the SSD is soldered directly to the motherboard... This would mean an expensive replacement of a computer I've spent a lot of money on.
-- Josh On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Trevor <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote: > > Andrew Bernard wrote on 17/02/2018 08:40:12 > > Myths about SSD's arise from early days. You have a new computer with > presumably a current SSD. Such SSD's can sustain petabyte (that's petabyte) > writes before they fail. If you write a terabyte of Frescobaldi data to the > disk in a year, which is utterly unreasonable, you can expect to get 1000 > years use out of it. The electronics in your computer will fail sometime in > that period. :-) There are admittedly other factors relating to hard drive > failure, but mechanical drives suffer the same factors. > > I wish people would relax about this topic or read the extensive > literature on contemporary drive testing, > > Here's a five paragraph summary article on this type of testing: > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/worried-about-ssd-wear-you- > probably-dont-need-to-be/ > > There also exist many very learned papers on the same topic, showing very > high endurance figures for consumer SSD's. > > In spite of this my Samsung SSD has started to fail after around 4 years > fairly intensive use in my main laptop, fortunately just a month after I > invested in a new laptop (complete with SSD). When the old SSD warms up, > after little more than 15 mins use, it fails and causes my laptop to > crash. I know it's the SSD as it has the same effect on two laptops which > are both fine with HDDs. Of course it could be the electronics in the SSD > rather than the store itself, but the effect is much the same. > Nevertheless the benefits far outweigh the dangers - just make sure you > make frequent backups of anything critical, just as you would with any > other type of drive. > > Trevor > >
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