Suggestions for an SSD

[ThaCrip]

19 hours ago, LostCat said:

I said in general, not in every case.  Hell, most of them survive thrashing just fine (for a while, anyway.)

Yeah, in general name brand modern SSD's should easily exceed their official TBW (TB written) rating. like many are rated at at least 7x TB or higher lately and even those should last a long time even if someone is writing 20-40GB to them per day (should still give at least 5-10+ years of life at those rates as that's how long it would take to get into the 7x TB written ranges) which is already alot of data, especially doing it on a consistent basis like that.

 

so unless you happen to get a faulty SSD chances are it's going to last an EASY 5+ years (should be 10+ years minimum in my mind if the quality is truly good (I leave my main computer on all of the time outside an occasional reboot/power down)) and apparently the manufacturers feel the same given many of them have 5 year warranties as standard lately (for the quality brands which are reasonably priced) as I would say if a manufacturer does not have a 5 year warranty I would avoid buying it unless it's at a price that's cheap enough to where you don't mind taking a risk etc.

 

that article you posted even says... "Most PC users, myself included, write no more than a few terabytes per year." ; which is about where I am at to on my Samsung 850 EVO (on my main PC running Win10 and it's on pretty much 24/7) as it's just shy of 12TB and it's a bit shy of 3 years and 3 months old which means I am around 4TB per year on an average, or a bit less. but I suspect that figure will drop with time as I don't really download bigger files much to it anymore where as at one point I was downloading larger files to it here and there. plus, about the only time ill put larger files on it is is a game installation which will occasionally write 50-75GB to it or so. but as a general rule... if one is dealing with larger video files especially fairly often it's best to put those on a standard hard drive as it will cut back on the SSD wear. but in general modern SSD's are great so you can pretty much just use them and forget about it especially considering you can find quality 250GB range SSD for around $70 lately which is not bad at all as I would say that's about the minimum size I suggest for most people. although if one just wants something as cheap as possible and don't plan on storing too much on the drive then the 120-128GB range SSD's can be great but only if you can get a quality brand for around $30 because for a 120-128GB range drive I don't feel comfortable paying more than around $30 for such a small amount of storage space. anything smaller than 120-128GB is simply not worth buying since I heard you generally don't want to use more than 80% or so of a SSD's capacity in order to keep things running optimally.

[adrynalyne]

1 hour ago, ThaCrip said:

Yeah, in general name brand modern SSD's should easily exceed their official TBW (TB written) rating. like many are rated at at least 7x TB or higher lately and even those should last a long time even if someone is writing 20-40GB to them per day (should still give at least 5-10+ years of life at those rates as that's how long it would take to get into the 7x TB written ranges) which is already alot of data, especially doing it on a consistent basis like that.

 

so unless you happen to get a faulty SSD chances are it's going to last an EASY 5+ years (should be 10+ years minimum in my mind if the quality is truly good (I leave my main computer on all of the time outside an occasional reboot/power down)) and apparently the manufacturers feel the same given many of them have 5 year warranties as standard lately (for the quality brands which are reasonably priced) as I would say if a manufacturer does not have a 5 year warranty I would avoid buying it unless it's at a price that's cheap enough to where you don't mind taking a risk etc.

 

that article you posted even says... "Most PC users, myself included, write no more than a few terabytes per year." ; which is about where I am at to on my Samsung 850 EVO (on my main PC running Win10 and it's on pretty much 24/7) as it's just shy of 12TB and it's a bit shy of 3 years and 3 months old which means I am around 4TB per year on an average, or a bit less. but I suspect that figure will drop with time as I don't really download bigger files much to it anymore where as at one point I was downloading larger files to it here and there. plus, about the only time ill put larger files on it is is a game installation which will occasionally write 50-75GB to it or so. but as a general rule... if one is dealing with larger video files especially fairly often it's best to put those on a standard hard drive as it will cut back on the SSD wear. but in general modern SSD's are great so you can pretty much just use them and forget about it especially considering you can find quality 250GB range SSD for around $70 lately which is not bad at all as I would say that's about the minimum size I suggest for most people. although if one just wants something as cheap as possible and don't plan on storing too much on the drive then the 120-128GB range SSD's can be great but only if you can get a quality brand for around $30 because for a 120-128GB range drive I don't feel comfortable paying more than around $30 for such a small amount of storage space. anything smaller than 120-128GB is simply not worth buying since I heard you generally don't want to use more than 80% or so of a SSD's capacity in order to keep things running optimally.

I wouldnt spend a cent on something rated at 7TB max writes. SSDs are typically rated for hundreds of TB writes. 

 

Edit: noticed the ‘x’. ?

Edited August 3, 2018 by adrynalyne