X301 SSD Question

A few months ago I installed an x-18 IBM SSD on my X301 (increased the speed by not enough to make me 100% happy, but I am still loving my laptop)

My brother has me not storing any music or videos on this since he says the SSD has a limited number of read/ write before it craps out.

Is that still true or is that just a myth from back in the early SSD days???

I really want to download movie rentals on here so I dont have lug dvds and return them to redbox when I travel for work.

Thanks

 

yes the SSD only have a limited number of read and write cycles.

Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

So basically he is correct I should not be copying over movies and downloading from itunes on this machine?

I guess that is leason learned....

 

don't do it too many times.

 

Todays SSD's do have a limited number of writes but the number is so ridiculously high it will take you years to run out. By then they'll have SSD's that will last decades at costs that rival HDD's today.

 

Correct. By the time you wear that Intel X-18 SSD drive out, you'll be ready for another SSD anyway. Do whatever you want and have fun.

 

He's correct that the number of read/write cycles are limited. However, copying over movies and downloading from iTunes would be a very low concern item. Both of these write only once and in a fairly large sequence and are thus very mild on SSDs.

The bigger concern would be wear from small random temp files and the Windows swap (paging) file. However, due to the number of write cycles you get and wear leveling, this is not an issue over the practical life of an SSD for a personal computer.

If you we're running this on a server with constant I/O you might hit the limit (this is part of the reason Enterprise buyers still favor SLC [ten times the number of writes] over MLC), but it is still unlikely it would happen quickly.

In short - Don't worry about it.

 

Very unlikely you'll hit the write limit on your drive within five years or so, they use wear leveling algorithms to keep individual cells from failing and to distribute the write load across the entire drive. You should not have a problem with your drive unless you are doing constant write erase and rewrite cycles (on the entire drive, mind you) like you might see on an enterprise SQL server that has heavy data loads.

 

I just wanted to thank you guys for your input... I do appreciate it.... (sorry not to get back right away my internet has been funky)