Steaming Media, but does it affect the read/write cycles on a SSD?

Ultim8

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Ok my media centre had an OCZ vertex which has died.
Im going through the RMA process with it and may ask for a crucial M4 or C300.

Thing is my media centre streams full HD most of the time with files from 7GB to 20GB+.

Now with all the scaring going on about 25nm reduced wear rates I was thinking surely these streaming files are buffering on my SSD? or do they buffer into the systems memory?

Can anyone confirm as this will obviously affect whether I go for the M4 or the older 35nm C300.
 
ok so i guess it buffers it in the memory then, i wonder if this is dependant on what media software your using?
 
Ok i ask because just before my media centre died XBMC kept buffering movies (they freeze and then a buffering bar would appear). So i wondered if the SSD was causing the issues as i have never had an issue before.

All files are served from a completely Gigabit Network from a 6TB Freenas box I made. When i transfer a large file over the network i get 100-110MB/s so im maxing my network limit.
 
When an SSD goes it tends to be a sudden death, no fouling up before it happens so it's unlikely to have been caused by that.
With that setup it's disk > NIC > Network. The client might 'buffer' a little but you're not streaming as such so if you see that message it's more that there's a throughput issue and it's waiting to catchup rather than retrieving more in advance of playback.
 
hmm maybe a nic update has done something, i will check it all out once im back up and running. Thanks for your help.
 
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