Things you shouldn't do with your SSD

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ok seeings as i'll be receiving my first SSD soon i have been doing some reading.

Some seem to think it's best keeping as an application/games drive while having windows and temp files/logs etc on a hard drive so the SSD will last a lot longer according to them.

is the lifespan pretty bad if downloading/uploading and general stuff you wouldn't be afraid to do on a hard drive?

if it will last an easy 5+ years with regular usage then it's good enough for me, but will it?
 
Nobody knows. I wouldnt worry about it, in 2 years time you'll get 300MB/s 1TB SSDs for £100. So you wont be wanting to keep your slow and crappy 64GB drive anyway.

I'd say its pointless buying one if you're not going to put your OS on it, as that's the main thing it would give a boost to.

Only thing you really shouldn't do is defrag.
 
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Lanz said:
Nobody knows. I wouldnt worry about it, in 2 years time you'll get 300MB/s 1TB SSDs for £100. So you wont be wanting to keep your slow and crappy 64GB drive anyway.

I'd say its pointless buying one if you're not going to put your OS on it, as that's the main thing it would give a boost to.

Only thing you really shouldn't do is defrag.
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3-4 years is more acceptable than it only lasting 2.

I will put my OS on it, i'm getting a 128gb falcon drive so it aint exactly a cheap SSD to begin with.

Just that people seem to be extra careful about where things are stored/downloaded to.
 
I think that with the smaller sizes people are jealously guarding their free space and so moving things like IE cache, temp files etc onto mechanical drives, but depending on your usage I would have thought that you shouldn't need to do that with the 128Gb SSD you are getting.

I have 90Gb space and apart from the 'usual tweaks' I haven't bothered moving any temp folders etc and dont really notice the slight loss of space this will cause.
 
Just use it as you need. Don't worry too much about it.

The only thing I would say is turn off the defragmentation.
 
full formats seem to not an good idea on SSDs
filling the SSD to the point there is no free space left (keep 20-30gb free)
using tools that wipe free space (CCleaner)

the above 3 could put your SSD into an degraded state (far slower then norm Filled state that only affects Write speeds)

Low level format seems to be the only fix or using the Trim tool that a lot of companies have (not samsung but mine has not gone slow and i have Writen 5-7x the size of my disk to it so its filled now)

most of this be None issue once SSDs add Trim command to the ATA spec, so windows 7 can send the Trim to it
 
The warranty is for 2 years, so I believe they assume the drive will be heavily used within those 2 years. With normal use maybe it lasts 4 years who knows. But since they say 2 years, at least for 2 years I feel "safe".

Afterall, if these drives start to massively fail after 1.5 years lets say some of these companies will file for bankruptcy :p
 
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