SSD Life span

Phil2008 · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:14

snadge said:
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

My system boots up in about 20secs and if I resume from sleep its about 3secs. Sleep and shutdown uses 1-2watts

The only time I shutdown my pc is when I blow the dust out.

MagicBoy · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:16

I sleep my Mac. Don't reboot it or shut it down unless it makes me with a software update.

snadge · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:25

Phil2008 said:
My system boots up in about 20secs and if I resume from sleep its about 3secs. Sleep and shutdown uses 1-2watts

The only time I shutdown my pc is when I blow the dust out.

So does my computer use just as much energy when its shutdown as it does when its asleep?

I tried using sleep many moons ago but found that sessions that remained active for days and days on end started to become problematic requiring reboots, programs/windows not working or responding properly - this seemed worse on XP.

Phil2008 · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:35

Thats the best thing about sleep, the session of windows resumes where it left of, so your ssd doesn't have todo any work at all if the hiberfil.sys is disabled. I restart my system about once every 1-2weeks, as windows 7 sometimes throws its toys out of the pram if you never restart.

I prefer my system like a tv,, on/off instantly and ready and waiting

snadge · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:52

Phil2008 said:
I restart my system about once every 1-2weeks, as windows 7 sometimes throws its toys out of the pram if you never restart.

So it wasnt just me then hehe

oh well I may try it again, might be more stable on a decent computer that I have now (8Gb DDR3 x Core-i5 3470 x 120Gb Samsung 840 x Gigabyte mobo x XFX 450 pro Core PSU)

Phil2008 · 6 Mar 2013 at 01:07

snadge said:
So it wasnt just me then hehe

oh well I may try it again, might be more stable on a decent computer that I have now (8Gb DDR3 x Core-i5 3470 x 120Gb Samsung 840 x Gigabyte mobo x XFX 450 pro Core PSU)

All things throws its toys out of the pram if never restarted if you think about it, sky box, mobiles ect. Anything that uses software, they all have fits every so often

V F · 6 Mar 2013 at 01:54

Phil2008 said:
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.

I didn't say anything about secure erase.

Phil2008 said:
You must have been hammering the writes on it, with benchmarking, using sleep and not disabling the hiberfil.sys file, reinstalling windows loads, or not doing a secure erase every time you do a windows install/restore?

V F said:
I keep reading mixed opinions on this and never any facts. So many say this causes a slow boot up....