But thats how it works it out,, and that's why a new SSD cannot tell you how long its got in the first 1-2 weeks of usage, until it has a rough idea of your usage patten.. So yeah if yo start to hammer a ssd, within a few days ssd life years and days will decrease some what.
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But thats how it works it out,, and that's why a new SSD cannot tell you how long its got in the first 1-2 weeks of usage, until it has a rough idea of your usage patten.. So yeah if yo start to hammer a ssd, within a few days ssd life years and days will decrease some what.
Thats how long its been powered on. Like mine is 3yrs old but ssd life says its been powered on for just over a yr.
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I'll make CPU Life and make millions LOL. Temp x power / usage per hour 
I'll make CPU Life and make millions LOL. Temp x power / usage per hour
The power on and work usage would be really interesting to know on a cpu and gpu. I Guess it wouldnt be that hard to give you this info either?
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Nah it's on almost round the clock usually. Started using Sleep again recently though so maybe that's messing it up.
If it's still going in another couple of years i'll probably replace it anyway. Not really a fan of keeping drives that the OS is on for too long.
If it's still going in another couple of years i'll probably replace it anyway. Not really a fan of keeping drives that the OS is on for too long.
sleep is my shutdown button now and I use sleep meny times in the daytime. A good idea is to disable/delete the hiberfil.sys file, because every time you use sleep, it writes the content of your memory to the hdd/ssd incase you have a power failure.
Secure erase clears all the memory cells and makes the drive factory default. You should never format a SSD, but saying that you have to format to install windows. But always do a secure erase before you reinstall windows or perform a image restore. never do a full format on SSD's.
Some SSD's perform badly if you dont do a secure erase before reinstalling windows or restoring a image like my OCZ Vertex does, Im not sure why but Im sure someone will tell us
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I keep reading mixed opinions on this and never any facts. So many say this causes a slow boot up....
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Apparently my year old M4 has 8 years life and my 'ancient' and much abused 80Gb x25m has just as long left in it. The x25 serves as my HTPC's boot drive and so spends an awfully long time in sleep mode, with no apparent ill effects. Anyway, regardless of what the software says, both drives still feel pin sharp.
Of the five or six SSD's I've owned, only the first one, an old skool Samsung, went pear shaped and I wouldn't be inclined to go with them again either as a result. I'll be steering clear of OCZ too, they are rather notorious.
Of the five or six SSD's I've owned, only the first one, an old skool Samsung, went pear shaped and I wouldn't be inclined to go with them again either as a result. I'll be steering clear of OCZ too, they are rather notorious.
I cant understand how the hibernate file would cause a slow boot or reduce life span? if one didnt use Hibernate it would just be a large dormant file wouldnt it? - one can save a lot of space by turning off
I see when I sent the OCZ Agility 3 back...the supplier I bought from now has 365 'refurbished' ones at about £60 for 120Gb lol.... 365 that have been sent back!!
I see when I sent the OCZ Agility 3 back...the supplier I bought from now has 365 'refurbished' ones at about £60 for 120Gb lol.... 365 that have been sent back!!
If you dont secure erase the sdd, the alignment gets screwed up and this does cause slowdowns. Plus is it really worth screwing up your sdd, by doing things thats not recommended?
Iv had my ssd for 3 yrs now, and given it a good hammering over the years with restoring/reinstalling windows 10+, but I always without fail do a secure erase before I do. As you can see my ssd is still in excellent health and it hasnt dropped below 100% yet. I bet it wouldnt be saying that if I sometimes said, oh cant be bothered with secure erase, it will be fine...... Why risk it.
Because it writes everytime you put your system to sleep, writing the entire content of your memory to your ssd..
Its like a protection thing, if a lot of writing goes on in a short space of time, it slows its self down to prolong the lifespan of the drive. The only way to get the speed back up when the ssd gets to this state is by secure erasing it.
I didnt think many people used SLEEP that has SSD's..? theres no need as boot up is so quick, from pressing power on button to useable desktop is 17 seconds on mine - also I find a lot of people prefer not too because they dont like leaving devices turned on over-night or when they are out - also the energy consumption when sleeping...even though its very little it still uses energy and Joe Bloggs thinks of it like an STB Standby thats sucking almost as much energy as it does when in use.
SSD Boot is almost certainly as quick as Hibernate hence there is no need for it.
I will have a google about the protection thing you talk about, I wouldnt mind knowing more about it, Iam going to do an article for my website on SSD's