SSD Write Endurance Considered Sufficient

Post by threedaymonk » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:08 PM UTC

lbraasch wrote: post #6

tl;dr I'm guilty of the SSD fear. My first Intel (320) drive was meticulously maintained in fear of shortened life span and performance losses. I went so far as to question every file copied to the drive vs. mounting an external HDD. The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months. Using a Samsung drive now. I don't think about read/writes anymore. I just use the darn thing.

Post by ryanklee » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

threedaymonk wrote: post #11

lbraasch wrote: post #6

tl;dr I'm guilty of the SSD fear. My first Intel (320) drive was meticulously maintained in fear of shortened life span and performance losses. I went so far as to question every file copied to the drive vs. mounting an external HDD. The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months. Using a Samsung drive now. I don't think about read/writes anymore. I just use the darn thing.

> The thing bricked itself due to a firmware bug in less than 12 months. Was it an OCZ, by any chance? The exact same thing happened to me. I scrupulously avoided unnecessary wear, disabled swap (though I've been disabling swap for years), mounted /tmp on a RAM disk, and the accurs't thing killed itself stone dead waking from sleep due to a firmware bug. I also replaced it with a Samsung, as it happens.

Post by 65a » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

gcp wrote: post #14

c't has a lang duration test where it became obvious many SSD's were dying long before they should according to the theoretical numbers. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available for free: https://www.heise.de/artikel-archiv/ct/2012/03/066_SSD-Zerst... This technology is too dependent on software to make these kind of models even remotely approximate reality.

Post by marshray » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

potkor wrote: post #5

People go completely irrational about avoiding writes to SSD's, I've seen researchers at an EE dept spending evenings tuning their Windows installations and going as far as stuffing frequently used stuff onto a RAM disk. I guess the early off brand SSD's randomly eating your data didn't help the popular perception (even though that wasn't because of flash wear). But still...

Post by twotwotwo » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

saidajigumi wrote: post #16

SSD write fear is kinda nuts, IMO. It's a device subject to wear, tear, and catastrophic failure -- just like HDDs. Keep backups (three for important data; a cloud copy is only one copy), enjoy the performance, and don't sweat it. If you aren't keeping backups, then go ahead and cower under the sheets at night.