Noob Question About SSDs

PrChaos

PrChaos

PrChaos

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Well I feel like an idiot for asking this... But do SSD's have a lifespan in which they will only read/write a certain amount of times before they kick the bucket? I was told this is the case. This is why I've never really thought about investing in one (besides the price of them!)

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PrChaos.
 
137 years (???)



But don't they specify an operating temperature, humidity etc? A few degrees above and the lifespan is reduced somewhat
 
50,000 days? Jesus. And I was told they end up dying after about a year... Shows what my college lecturer knows! Thanks for the info guys!
 
MTBF 1.2 Million Hours (= 50,000 days = roughly 100 years)
Drive Endurance 72TB=40GB per day for 5 year

I think it would be which one of these limit's is reached first so could in theory run out in under 2 years if you rewrote the full 120GB every day, very unlikely and even 40GB a day seems a lot unless it's including reading data from the SSD.

EDIT* I was using the 128GB from the link

Stulid said:
MTBF (mean time before failure)
Click to expand...

Just re-read post and I'm wrong about it being which is reached first, but my point about running through the drive endurance still stands :p
 
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It's not them dying you need to worry about. It's your bank manager dying!

Not worth it in my opinion. I'm speaking from experience. I've got two myself and used many others.

Stick with a Samsung F3!
 
I'd say the opposite, my SSD made a massively noticeable difference to my system performance.

Oh and it's 2 years old next month in a PC that's been on practically 24/7 and it's still working fine :)
 
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