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    Is it okay for an SSD to go through medium-heavy write cycles?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Meever, Jul 18, 2010.

  1. Meever

    Meever Notebook Evangelist

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    I was thinking about using an SSD for my main hard drive. I don't really watch movies or have a huge music collection so I don't really need a lot of storage.

    But I do work with a lot of raw images. If I do about 10gb of writing onto a x25m a week would that be overly strenuous and kill the drive prematurely is is that within the acceptable amount of stress?

    Thanks for your help fellas.
     
    Meever, Jul 18, 2010
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    Intel's drives are proven to have low write aplification and at that level of writing onto one of their larger drives it should still last longer than a regular hard drive.

    Intel said 100GB per day would give you 5 years with their gen 1 drives. Its likely a bit less for the gen 2 but not far off.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 18, 2010
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    So 10gb a week should be okay for 3-4 years? Great.
     
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    100GB/day = 700GB a week.

    10GB/week = 1/70th of 100GB/day

    5x70 = 350 years.

    I think it might last longer than you.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jul 18, 2010
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    Ahhh, hand-me down SSDs. The thing that children always dream of. :)
     
    metril, Jul 18, 2010
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    lol i still remember the video about 24 Samsung SSD's in RAID 0... 2TB/s speed read speed.
     
    sean473, Jul 19, 2010
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    RAW images, photography?

    There is less wear than you think from those :) (Just watch the write counter on the toolbox - less change than expected with all the temp files from panoramas in Photoshop and the 10GB (9,something) of photos from last Friday... + normal use)

    I'm editing 5D MK II RAW files on my Vaio with no worries - Intels are fine with that.
     
    DetlevCM, Jul 19, 2010
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