SSD Drive dependability

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Do SSD drives have much of a failure rate, compared to HHD?
 

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Do SSD drives have much of a failure rate, compared to HHD?

They are generally more reliable than conventional drives. You will most likely replace the drive because it is too small or too slow, not because it has failed.
 

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I feel SSDs are more reliable, but durability might be a concern for long term users like >10yrs or so due to wear and tear - continue write processes..
 

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Not a big problem, hdds are pretty bad at durability to, never saw a hdd that would work all its life - because it is hdd, it is painfully slow, and with time it will catch some errors, some bad sectors, and hdd will become unusable, as its speed will drop to bytes/hour, so it would be like "walking to the moon" :) Mostly no hardware works all its life, it blows up, crashes, burns, or just gets replaced by a better hardware, so the only thing that should matter is getting a piece of hardware without defects.
The point with ssd is not only its huge speed, but it will work just like new until it will die, whereas with hdd your pc will slow down by a lot with every bad thing that happens to hdd.
 

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My earlier system lasted for 10yrs with 60GB HDD :cool:
Always SSD is the best, but now these kinds of articles come telling the differences between hdd & ssd, I think those are meant for business or industrial users right. For end user consumer it doesn't really matter at all.

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Can't remember the exact place but they are trying to find durability of some SSDs by pushing 2 TBs of data daily thru them and they are still going strong after more than a year. That's more than average user does in few month. I think only one older of 60 GB died until now.
 

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Can't remember the exact place but they are trying to find durability of some SSDs by pushing 2 TBs of data daily thru them and they are still going strong after more than a year. That's more than average user does in few month. I think only one older of 60 GB died until now.

Any guess which one will bring it out first... Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk, Kingston?

Samsung is my fav with that EVO & PRO series rocking the market :cool:
 

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The early SSD's had issues with longevity, from what I read anyway. With TRIM todays drives can outlast a spinner drive easily. TRIM ensures all cells get equal use to prevent excessive writes to any one cell that would wear that cell out prematurely. As far as bumps an knocks, like you might get in a laptop or tablet, with no moving parts they won't skip a beat.
Aside from the huge speed advantage of a conventional hard drive there are numerous other benefits, especially in a laptop or tablet. They draw less power which can give you more time on battery. They generate less heat which also gives you more battery time as your cooling fan runs less. The lower temps are good for all the internals too. They also weigh less. I'm running SSD's in my laptop and desktop PC. I have another one on order for my wife's laptop, it should arrive any day now.
 

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I just pulled 2 working hdds from computers that belonged to my late sister. One had a mfr date of July 1999 and the other Sept 2002. Both spinners work fine with no issues. However, I just grabbed the data off them and plan to recycle them due to their age. I doubt most users keep either hdds or ssds for 10+ years, most are replaced before they actually fail due to upgrades and the like.

I have ssds in my desktop, netbook, laptop and tablet and don't expect any of them to wear out before I decide to replace them. I recently replaced the 120G in my desktop, it was still running strong but I decided I'd replace it with a 256G model. The 120G drive got put in an external enclosure to be used for backups and such.
 

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SSDs NAND cells can be rewritten around 100000 times. Considering the sizes of nowadays SSDs they would take more than a century to fail even for an extreme user.
 

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:ditto: to both comments. With the price per gigabyte dropping they are getting to be very affordable. 256 GB is more than enough for most people to run Windows from. Data can then go a secondary drive that could be a conventional drive, of a second SSD. I have a 128 GB and a 256 GB SSD in my laptop, at the time 500 GB drives were pricy. I have 2 256 GB SSD's in my desktop PC. I like keeping my Data on a separate drive or partition so two drives made more sense than one. I don't game on my laptop so 128 GB is plenty for just Windows and office.
 

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:ditto: to both comments. With the price per gigabyte dropping they are getting to be very affordable. 256 GB is more than enough for most people to run Windows from. Data can then go a secondary drive that could be a conventional drive, of a second SSD. I have a 128 GB and a 256 GB SSD in my laptop, at the time 500 GB drives were pricy. I have 2 256 GB SSD's in my desktop PC. I like keeping my Data on a separate drive or partition so two drives made more sense than one. I don't game on my laptop so 128 GB is plenty for just Windows and office.

:ditto:

My main system has a 240GB SSD that is plenty for Windows 8.1, Office 2013, AutoCAD 2014, CorelDRAW X6, media editing tools and scientific software.

:)
 

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128 GB just didn't cut it on my desktop, I game and some of my FPS games / steam games eat up some space. 256 GB is plenty with all my documents, pictures, and videos etc on my Data drive.
 

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128 GB just didn't cut it on my desktop, I game and some of my FPS games / steam games eat up some space. 256 GB is plenty with all my documents, pictures, and videos etc on my Data drive.

High end games would be better off with good graphics card & decent RAM rather than SSD right?
 

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128 GB just didn't cut it on my desktop, I game and some of my FPS games / steam games eat up some space. 256 GB is plenty with all my documents, pictures, and videos etc on my Data drive.

High end games would be better off with good graphics card & decent RAM rather than SSD right?

Yes, it all factors in to performance. Aside from that though, for me 128 GB wasn't enough room for what I did on my desktop PC. I install/play a lot of gameson that PC. It varies from FPS to flight simms to racing simms. It all adds up so I went with 256 GB just to play it safe.
 

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Okay, hope SSDs really get huge push in technology even further so that prices become affordable , reducing $/gigs :)
 

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They are the future. Spinners will probably go the way of diskettes before long. Prices continue to drop. Anybody use tape drives anymore?
 

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Well, dont need to cry about high ssd prices, as they are really cheap these days - just look, even best crucial ssd 256 gb is ~178 $ (its a price in my country, near the end of the world, so in manufacturers country it should be much cheaper), how cheap is that !! i bought my 64 gb ssd for the same amount of money ~ 3,5 years ago... Of course, the best of the best and with a few terabytes of storage will cost much more, but that is for every piece of hardware, that is not for ordinary users - a simple core i7 cpu is fairly cheap too, but the price of the fastest extreme edition core i7 cpu just skyrockets, too.
 

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Last year I payed over 100 US bucks for Kingston V300 120GB and now they are less than $70.
 

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Hi there
240 GB is enough for most things -- I run OPENSUSE (Linux) on my laptop with a Windows 8.1 Virtual machine -- all from the SSD. If I need extra space for movies / music etc I simply attach external devices plus I also have a 32GB Micro sdHC card (in side a standsd SD card adapter) if I need to make a copy of work documents or whatever.

The response on the windows VM is faster than NATIVE on a normal HDD. (Use Windows still for Office, Photoshop etc).

The 1TB HDD that the laptop originally came with - I now use for archiving / backup .

Linux desktop with Machu Picchu (Peru) in the background - running VLC (native on Linux) and Windows 8.1update 1 on VMWARE workstation -- runs fine on Linux too.


Cheers
jimbo
 

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