SSD Life span

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just how long on average does an SSD last? Iam using SSD LIFE but it says my drive doesnt have detailed wear out information (Samsung 840 basic 120Gb) - I have had this drive just a few days and according to SSD LIFE it says Data Written is 239GB...lol - I absolutely know for sure this is massively incorrect, its a 120Gb drive with 72Gb free? its Thursday night, I got the drive on Tuesday afternoon lol

Ive installed windows and all my progs, ran AS SSD and ATTO twice, I ran the Samsung Magician - Performance Optimization which seemed to slow it down if anything.

surely 239Gb cant be right?
 
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Unless they break or have an inherent error SSD's should be good for a few years depending on usage. For general desktop 5 years+ is expected after which it will be time to replace with a cheaper and more spacious version.

Main thing is a backup solution as SSD's like any drive can fail randomly. Keep your valuable data safe.

I figure the 239GB is a bit OTT

Any data storage is temporary

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i had downloaded a 5Gb file and copied some stuff from USB (8Gb) and then back onto it - but I know for a fact I havent even written enough data to fill this drive - i think the samsung magician has done something to it because while it was running the disk space went right down to ZERO almost and was in the red.

I will make monthly backups & download to external drive directly (as thats where they go to in the end)

thanks
 
i have 8Gb RAM so page-file wouldnt get that mush use would it?

run benchs probably 3 times i think, not 2 - thats AS SSD and ATTO and even on ATTO I only run 1024k to 4096k - so thats 3 write runs at 256MB each, say 750Mb write per run for Atto - I dunno how much AS SSD uses

ive read a lot about the TLC chips in my 840 I was recommended on here though, sounds like they wont last nowhere near as long regular MLC chips (TLC estimated at 1000 write cycles per cell vs MLC estimated at 3000 write cycles per cell) - bah humbug, wished I'd known that before I bought it, I would have gotten an 830 instead, slightly cheaper with better write speeds too??!!
 
There lots of writing in the background that you don't see - internet cache files, temporary files, windows registry etc. It not just what you download or install. Any files that get overwritten or are deleted when no longer useful will count as data written but not use additional capacity.

The vanilla 840 is a brave experiment. I took an MLC drive in preference.
 
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MagicBoy said:
The vanilla 840 is a brave experiment. I took an MLC drive in preference.
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everyone was recommending the 840 to me on here as I sent back a dodgy OCZ Agility 3 - the 840 is faster mind and gets good reviews but the life expectancy could be 30% of a MLC drive, so if they say an MLC should last 10 years on average use then an 840 will last just 3 years - wished I'd known that before i chose it as a replacement drive as I learned the 830 is MLC and basically the same but with faster writes (because its MLC) and was a few quid cheaper :(
 
it will last longer than 3 years,youll be fine and its probably a software bug with ssdlife just take it with a pinch of salt

if the magician tool has slowed performance you can undo it,another user a few posts down had the same issue(nvm same person)

you should see atleast 10+ years out of that ssd
 
yeah it was me haha - dunno what the samsung magician performance ehancement done.. but Perfect Disk sorted it.. thats probably where all the usage has come from..consolidate free space run grabs all free space 'slacks' and puts them together into one free space clump , gaining some GB's back in the process and somehow boosting performance...well benchmarks that is!! I know this wont boost actual performance of an sdd, but it does get you some space back

hey if I got 4-5 years I will be a happy man! :)
 
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My SSD says its gonna die in 2020
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is that your Vertex 2E..? - they seem to be more reliable than Agility series, my dad has a Vertex 2E - does SSD LIFE work fully on that? shame it dont work on mine, cant wait to check and test my dads, when i built his comp nearly 2 years ago we knew nothing of SSD's - i now also know that because his is full to the brim (literraly) he needs to get another one soon because apparantley running them full is bad for longevity
 
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is that your Vertex 2E..? - they seem to be more reliable than Agility series, my dad has a Vertex 2E - does SSD LIFE work fully on that? shame it dont work on mine, cant wait to check and test my dads, when i built his comp nearly 2 years ago we knew nothing of SSD's - i now also know that because his is full to the brim (literraly) he needs to get another one soon because apparantley running them full is bad for longevity
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Well if I knew then what I know now, I wouldnt of ever had a Vertex 2E ssd as they just die for no reason. But Ive been quite lucky with mine as Ive had 3yrs now and had no probs at all with it.........BOOOOM:mad::D

SSD life runs fine and ssd life will prob work on yours after about a week of having the ssd, cos it has no idea what your usage pattens are at the moment, when its calculated it Im sure it will pop up. Give it time;)

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crikeys! 5248Gb written in 3 years... yet ive done 5% of that in 3 days?? Im just hoping its because installing and running bench - I will monitor usage on it and keep a spreadsheet so I can work it out myself

it says my drive doesnt provide detailed wear out information? - I have to admit there is much less SMART data than the OCZ Agility 3 I had
 
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crikeys! 5248Gb written in 3 years... yet ive done 5% of that in 3 days?? Im just hoping its because installing and running bench - I will monitor usage on it and keep a spreadsheet so I can work it out myself
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Ive restored/reinstalled about 10 times over the 3yrs:D

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it says my drive doesnt provide detailed wear out information? - I have to admit there is much less SMART data than the OCZ Agility 3 I had
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When I first got my ssd, ssd life said information was not available, or something like that, but after about 1-2weeks it popped up.
 
Still don't think I've ever heard of an SSD dying in normal use due to the NAND having too many writes, always seems to be the firmware or controller crapping out, which a program like SSD Life wouldn't be able to predict.
 
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just how long on average does an SSD last? Iam using SSD LIFE but it says my drive doesnt have detailed wear out information (Samsung 840 basic 120Gb) - I have had this drive just a few days and according to SSD LIFE it says Data Written is 239GB...lol - I absolutely know for sure this is massively incorrect, its a 120Gb drive with 72Gb free? its Thursday night, I got the drive on Tuesday afternoon lol

Ive installed windows and all my progs, ran AS SSD and ATTO twice, I ran the Samsung Magician - Performance Optimization which seemed to slow it down if anything.

surely 239Gb cant be right?
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SSDLife is also giving wrong readouts on my 830, i can assure you its a lot more than 2 months old and like you a lot of info is missing.

SSDLife probably isn't reading the Firmware right, Samsung don't use conventional Controllers / NAND... like you find in Corsair / OCZ drives.

Use AS SSD to test the Drives performance, unlike a lot of other such apps it will actually read the Data throughput, so its accurate.

My Drive performance is listed as 520MB's Read and 320MB's Write, however a drive with Data on it will be slower, they also slow down once they get a bit of age/use on them.

Your 840, i believe is listed as 580MB's Read 380MB's write

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metalmackey said:
SSD Life is stupid IMO. It could say the SSD has say 500 days left and it could fail in a week or last 5 years.
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ssd life only gives you a idea when the memory chips will start to become read only, it cannot predict a actual fail, as thats anyones guess.
 
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And that depends on how many times said memory is written to, so days has nothing to do with it. If you spend 1 day hammering it all day SSD Life would go down about a month.
 
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