How to maximise SSD lifespan

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was looking at OCZ forums and there wasa debate over P/E cycles with a conclusion that some drives may only last a few years (I have read the sticky here).

If this is true how do you maximise SSD lifespan.
Map My documents to another mechanical drive I would think.
Can you do this with your desktop and internet cache/cookies.

What else could you do, anything in windows to disable/enable
 
you could run firefox/chrome portable editions for one thing. also log off to allow TRIM to work on it efficiently, regularly.

the idea of remapping your My Docs to a mech HDD is interesting but impossible for me, as I run a number of programs that are hard-coded to access stuff from C:\.... which is a pain.

but the reality is that even if your main OS SSD only lasts a few years, well... that's probably longer than you'd have kept it anyway. i usually change my OS drive every 2-3 years anyway, so not much of an issue for me.

besides, i think the manufacturers will come out with firmware before that happens that allows for much longer lifespan. they're constantly improving reliability and speed with each FW update.
 
When a SSD comes to the end of its life what will happen, does it gradually degrade or just suddenly stop working.

I got a Samsung MLC SSD and its getting on a bit, should i be worried?
 
I don't see the point of trying to maximise the life of my SSD's I use a 128GB Samsung in work every day and it gets used the same way as any other drive.

A health test a few weeks back shows it as 98% healthy as I've had it for some time, I read about people turning off the page file and stuff but I really see no point in doing so.

On my 60gb at home I have moved my documents to another drive but thats just because of size limitations
 
I don't see any harm in trying to maximize the drives life. When it comes to selling it on you'll be able to quote its remaining life and price accordingly.
 
How much of your own lifespan are you willing to sacrifice in pursuit of this meaningless exercise?

Buy it/Use it/Replace it. Just like any PC component.
 
Do you underclock your cpu to maximise it's lifespan? Do you stay in bed all day in case you wear your heart out?
 
If you've got plenty of RAM (6GB+) You can always set your browser temp files to be stored on a RAMDisk (which can be made persistent - On my RAID0 SSD Array it only takes around 3 seconds extra at startup to load a 1.5GB ramdisk image, and around 10 seconds to write it at shutdowns/reboots. This is parallel to the usual startup/shutdown operations so the actual impact is less.
You can do Temp as well but unless you have enough RAM to make a huge RAMdisk you are likely to have space issues.

I did this because a) I had 8GB RAM and most of it goes unused, b) RAMdisk is even faster than an SSD. Minimising my SSD writes is just a beneficial side effect.
I wouldn't bother remapping to a mechanical drive though, the speed tradeoff isn't worth it. By the time your SSD nears the end of it's life (under normal conditions) it'll be practically worthless.
 
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Dirk said:
Do you underclock your cpu to maximise it's lifespan? Do you stay in bed all day in case you wear your heart out?
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The question was how to maximise its lifespan, it does not need a reply explaining how not too, simples

Oh and staying in bed all day would do a heck of a lot more damage than getting up and being active, so I do get out of bed too maximise my lifespan.
 
Also, it is worth looking at facts and figures before panicing. People hear that SSDs ware out and go into panic mode. It varies from SSD to SSD, but I was looking at someones math a while back and they worked out that if you write 10gb per day to your SSD then it would wear out in about 5 years (or something hardcore like that for the SSD in question).

To me, that's fine. In even 5 years my SSD will be in the bin as it will be too old and slow and small. In 5 years, SSDs will be all measured in GB/s and not MB/s and they will all be bigger too.
 
I always thought once a SSD cell wears out it just means you can't write anything new to it. But can continue to read what that cell contains, so could backup contents.

Someone else can confirm or rubbish above statement.

Quacky84 said:
Does a SSD give any read outs to S.M.A.R.T or do the have their own self-monitoring analysing method?
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Can use manfacturer supplied tools, if any are available. Here is data using Intel Toolbox (for Intel SSD)
Code: 
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	                Bit 2 - Response Incomplete	0	 		
	                Bit 1 - Retired	0	 		
	                Bit 0 - Reserved	0	 		
1	 Obsolete	 3FFF	 		
2	 Specific Configuration	 C837	 		
3	 Obsolete	10	 		
4	 Retired	0	 		
5	 Retired	0	 		
6	 Obsolete	 003F	 		
07-Aug	 Reserved	0	 		
9	 Retired	0	 		
Oct-19	 Serial Number	 Mind your own business	 		
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22	 Obsolete	0	 		
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68	 Minimum PIO Transfer Cycle Time With IORDY Flow Control (ns)	78	 		
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SSD's may have a longer useable/desireable life than mechnical HD's because the performance is mega, you might just use it for certain games/apps in future
 
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