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    Worried about SSD wear? You probably don't need to be

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tinderbox (UK), Dec 7, 2014.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Worried about SSD wear? You probably don't need to be | ZDNet

     
    Tinderbox (UK), Dec 7, 2014
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Uh, ZDNet. Okay. ;)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Dec 7, 2014
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  3. TomJGX

    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Tiller really lol? I've seen this elsewhere and hell I'm impressed...
     
    TomJGX, Dec 7, 2014
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  4. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    ZDNet is 'reporting' about tests conducted at the tech report.

    5 paragraphs, yawn.

    As for the tech report itself? Writing a ton of data in as short a period as possible is nowhere close to how any real life workload works.


    Also; the faster drive was allowed to reach the arbitrary TBW and then allowed to rest. Some SSD's were on SATA3 ports, some were on SATA2 ports on two different systems. SE'ing between benchmark runs, c'mon.

    Yawn.


    What this does show though is that my habit of defragging all the SSD's I have doesn't impact their expected longevity in any way. As I have known from 2011. ;)
     
    tilleroftheearth, Dec 7, 2014
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  5. n=1

    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    For an average user like me, I'm more concerned about the controller crapping out tbh. And if that does happen, is there any way to recover the data in the NAND? Soldering on another controller perhaps?
     
    n=1, Dec 7, 2014
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  6. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    Same here. And I've had it happen in our household, thank you SandForce...:realmad:
    This is somewhat of a gray area...I was told by a respected source that as long as the data wasn't encrypted, it could be recovered. I wouldn't want to hear the price tag, though...

    While I'm not an expert on the matter, I doubt that soldering another controller would do much of anything...
     
    ajkula66, Dec 7, 2014
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  7. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Yup, so far, the only SSD issue I've had (aside from the Evo one) was a controller deciding that writing data to the drive was too much for it, fortunately, it would still read data and all I had to do was clone it to a temp drive while it was on RMA. Anecdotal, but the controller was a SF-2281.
     
    tijo, Dec 8, 2014
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