SSD The more you write the faster they wear out?

[JimBeam251]

Hello

A friend of mine told me that when you use an SSD to write stuff, like i was going to use it for 3ds max, they deteriorate pretty fast?

Is this true? :x

~Lee

 

[stulid]

yes, but its years, not a "over night thing"

 

[DIABLO]

They have a limited amount of writes but unless you're writing 10's of gigs a day then it will be years before it can't write anymore and you need to replace (when they fail because they reach the max number of writes you can still read the drive the get data off just not wriote anything new).

 

[pcAnywhere]

You'll also need to check that trim is turned.

 

[stulid]

You'll also need to check that trim is turned on

 

[anuraj]

yes, but its years, not a "over night thing"

Agreed. I wonder if the next generation doesn't have deterioration

 

[JimBeam251]

Ah i see, i hope they fix this in the next gen of SSD

 

[jimmy321]

Ah i see, i hope they fix this in the next gen of SSD

In what way? everything 'wears out' HHD's Monitors/TV's, your shoes etc.

I haven't seen any comparison showing the life of a mechanical drive vrs SSD.

I read somewhere (think it was an artical about RAID on wikipeadia so it must be true!) that a mechanical hard drive has on average a 5% chance of failing every year, I don't know if it's the same for SSD's they may infact last longer on average but who knows only time will tell.

 

[DIABLO]

It's not something they can fix 100% as it's a fundemental shortcoming of the technology.

 

[JimBeam251]

So you think it's best to not put 3DS max on my SSD, how about Adobe After Effects or Photoshop? will it still last years if i used them?

Thanks

 

[Mick-1965]

My crucial M225 64GB is down to 90% after almost a year, With normal OS use and a few games.
So at that rate it wont be worn out for another 9 years

 

[jimmy321]

So you think it's best to not put 3DS max on my SSD, how about Adobe After Effects or Photoshop? will it still last years if i used them?

Thanks

I WOULD put the likes of 3DS max PS ect on your SSD, if you can get a big enough SSD to put all these apps and the images/files you want to edit on it you will see a big increase in performance.

I use PS and Corel Draw with eveything I need on a 128gb SSD and it's night and day performance wise.

 

[JimBeam251]

I WOULD put the likes of 3DS max PS ect on your SSD, if you can get a big enough SSD to put all these apps and the images/files you want to edit on it you will see a big increase in performance.

I use PS and Corel Draw with eveything I need on a 128gb SSD and it's night and day performance wise.

Ah thank you but how long will the SSD last using these programs? will it deteriorate fast?

 

[Tealc]

MLC NAND flash is typically rated at about 5–10k cycles

That's not that many really. If a block is written once a day though it'll still last almost 14 years. Not so good if you write 10 times per day though, that's 1.4 years for your investment.

I checked before Christmas and SSDs at 64GB were around £100 and they still sit around £100. Not tempting me.

I can wait the extra 0.5 seconds it takes VLC Player, Firefox etc to load for the moment.

 

[jimmy321]

Ah thank you but how long will the SSD last using these programs? will it deteriorate fast?

Who knows, It's down to how much you use it. My 128gb Samsung is well over a year old and the last time I checked with crystal disk it was 98% healthy. I use about 65gig on the drive (this PC only has the apps I need and has never seen a game or movie), I guess if you were using say 100gb and overwriting large files every day it would be in worse shape.

If it broke and was not covered by warranty I would buy another to replace it I just couldent got back to a mechanical drive.

 

[DIABLO]

Just get the thing and use it how you want and not worry about it.

 

[Jokester]

That's not that many really. If a block is written once a day though it'll still last almost 14 years. Not so good if you write 10 times per day though, that's 1.4 years for your investment.

It's worth noting that all SSDs have wear level algorithms to spread the wear evenly across the disk, so you would in effect have to write the complete capacity of the disk to it 10 times a day to achieve that 1.4 years.

 

[Tute]

Doesn't a move to MLC help with wear? But it costs a lot more, hence not being used as much.

 

[Energize]

What benefit does an SSD offer 3ds max other than the inital loading of files? Rendering is not bottlenecked by hdd speed.

 

[DIABLO]

Doesn't a move to MLC help with wear? But it costs a lot more, hence not being used as much.

Most mainstream drives are MLC, Enterprise drives are SLC which are capable of a lot more writes.