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    Worried of my SSD's premature death

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ellalan, Oct 20, 2011.

  1. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    My SSD Life showing that my ssd's life will end on 6th Feb 2012, do I need another drive after that or just the program misreading.
     

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    SlickDude80 Notebook Prophet

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    that doesn't seem right. Says your SSD has only been working for less than 3 months

    Have you optimized your drive? like have you moved the swap file off to a HDD and moved all writing of temp files/cache to the HDD? This will lengthen SSD drive life enormously. i have also disabled all disk restore options on my SSD which will stop a bunch of useless writing

    If there was lots of temp and cache writing while you did your SSD life, it could report things wrong
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 20, 2011
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  3. Tomy B.

    Tomy B. Notebook Evangelist

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    Don't turn off anything, expect defragmentation.

    If You do regular backup then just enjoy Your SSD, it will last longer then You think.
     
    Tomy B., Oct 20, 2011
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    jclausius Notebook Virtuoso

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    How long have you had the drive? You haven't provided any info of what's been done to the drive over its lifetime, so it's hard to tell what may be the issue. For example, have you written/deleted GB and GB or even TB and TB worth of data with the drive? Have you contacted Acer or Kingston regarding this problem?

    In regards to turning things on/off, if you installed Win 7 on the drive brand new, all settings should be fine. If you want to do more tweaking there are more suggestions here - SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Forums

    In regards to moving your virtual memory manager's pagefile, leave it on the SSD. See "Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?" from MS engineers - Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives - Engineering Windows 7 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
     
    jclausius, Oct 20, 2011
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    Thanks everyone, I have been using this drive for 10mths, as Tomy B suggested, I haven't done any tweaking except disabling defragging.
    I have windows8 DP installed and my usage mainly browsing, videos, youtube and office. I have been undervolting and used Orthos quite a few times and could that be the cause, I wonder.
    Thanks again Tomy B for the assurance.
     
    ellalan, Oct 20, 2011
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    seiyafan Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a question related to this topic. I noticed that SSDLife keeps track of number of power cycles for the SSD. Due to the nature of my work I need to put laptop to sleep (not hibernation) 7-10 times a day. Would this have any significant effect on the life of the drive?
     
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    For those of you worried about the life, here is a thread that discusses it, and they have tested many ssd's. Some great info, and as Tmy said, it shows you should just enjoy the drive. Here is the link: SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 93.
     
    Abidderman, Oct 20, 2011
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  8. Tomy B.

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    @ seiyafan: I have my SSD for more then two years, always used it as a regular HDD, rarely turning it off (maybe once a week) and using sleep few times a day and it is still working very good.
     
    Tomy B., Oct 21, 2011
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