Why do discussions about the R/W longevity of an SSD continue to crop up when average consumer use-case will never reach that threshold well over a decade after buying the device?
Yes SSDs have a limited life span determined by the electrical energy tolerance that NAND flash can accept over the course of reads, writes, and deletes but unless you're committing 400GB worth of reads, writes, and deletions every single day, you're not going to encounter that limit.
> Why do discussions about the R/W longevity of an SSD continue to crop up when average consumer use-case will never reach that threshold well over a decade after buying the device? People don’t like moving to a new technology and something just must be found in order to delegitimize what ever is new and upcoming For SSDs the lifespan was a relatively easy target because a lifespan exists while on HDDs their isn’t a lifespan really listed other than MTBF Doesn’t matter if it takes decades for you to hit that limit but it doesn’t look good
>all that work to make the board usable when the mods should do their fucking jobs
Thomas Watson
all me
Jacob Roberts
>400GB worth of reads, writes, and deletions
are these happening all of the time? Like when I'm doing anything on the internet it's all being written to disk, read, and deleted, right? Or is virtually all of my internet browsing stored in ram?
Josiah Green
based Jow Forumsnessman
Alexander Hernandez
Usually your SSD isn't doing anything. Reading has a negligible effect. Writing does happen but thanks to TRIM you're not going to run up against NAND wear in any significant proportion because the controller manages how the data on the SSD gets spread so it doesn't keep hammering the same cell.
Leo Baker
Sorry, I was distracted and didn't finish my point.
SSD stress tests generally force the SSD to accept and manipulate an inordinate amount of data on a recurring basis. Several hundred gigs of data being pushed to and from the drive on a daily basis. You have to be trying deliberately to push that much data across an SSD and if you are doing that level of data manipulation you'd probably need something more than a single NVMe drive to contain it.
>if you are doing that level of data manipulation you'd probably need something more than a single NVMe drive to contain it. People who do have that type of data usage usage use something like a Fusion IO drive or some other enterprise grade SSD with TBW reaching into the petabyte range You can also just use a consumer NVMe and treat it as disposable, whatever money you are making video editing or something will vastly outstrip a theoretical drive failure every 2 years
William Gonzalez
I would like to use filters, but something feels creepy to me about not being able to see the entire thread :(
Thomas Torres
>SSD ReadyBoost+PageFile that all it good for
Gavin Flores
>file size 256MB Nice benchmark for the volatile cache of the device I guess.
Nolan Brooks
That sounds like a problem with the thread more than you.