SSD Life Expectancy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- SSDs have limited program/erase or P/E cycles. In this video I discuss the life expectancy of SLC, eMLC, MLC and TLC drives, as well as covering wear levelling, over provisioning, and TBW, PWB and DWPD endurance ratings.
Note that the data presented in this video was obtained from a great many sources, including all major SSD manufacturers, and was up-to-date as of 25 March 2017. Note also that the second SSD listed in the table of client SSDs at c.6:41 is a Samsung 850 Pro, not a Sandisk 850 Pro (which does not exist). Sorry! :)
If you enjoy this video, you may also be interested in the following:
Explaining M.2 SSDs: • Explaining M.2 SSDs
Hard Drive Life Expectancy: • Hard Drive Life Expect...
The Death of the Hard Drive: • The Death of the Hard ...
Migrating to an SSD: • Video
More videos on computing-related topics can be found at: / explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: / explainingthefuture - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This man is a gent among gents and a great orator of all things tech. No loud music, no dancing graphics, just friendly sound advice. Thumbs up every time! Thank you, kind Sir!!!
i like this guy for the same reason. He is like a father giving friendly advice
Hard to believe that this man still checks comments in a 3 year old video
I do! :)
That’s because he’s the best
he's enthusiastic bout his ssd's.
I always liked tech.
i guess good youtubers does that
8:38 - "over a decade", that's all I need to hear.
Thanks man! 🤣🙏🏼
SMART reports that the OCZ Vertex 3 in my 10 y.o. everyday system (total power-on hours of 4.02 years) still has a 'remaining life' of 98%. Sure, it's a boot disk, not a data disk, but I've done nothing fancy to minimise writes to it (e.g. redirect temp files elsewhere) and speed-wise it's still much faster, cooler and quieter than the (long since dead) WD black drive it replaced.
My very first SSD, a 2009 64GB Samsung PB22-J (badged as a Patriot Torqx M28) which was the predecessor of the Samsung 470, which in turn was the predecessor of the 830 (just to give you an idea how far back this goes) has only recently started showing issues. It still works fine, but it's SMART status reports that there aren't many NAND program/erase cycles left. This SSD was used for 11 years on a daily basis (first in my PC, when I upgraded I put it into my moms PC) and only now started showing issues but not outright failing/dropping dead. If these very early and somewhat crude SSDs (the PB22-J didn't even support TRIM until the very last firmware update) manage to last this long, I'm honestly not too worried about newer, more advanced ones with better wear leveling, provided we're talking big brands that produce things themselves like Samsung, Crucial, Intel, etc. and not the cheapo brands that just slap their name on products made by someone else and don't actually produce anything themselves (like Kingston, Adata, Corsair, etc.)
I've surpassed the 10 yr mark.
8 years and counting.
you are a gift to the computer world, i remember stumbling upon your channel when raspberry pi cards were in the limelight, man im so glad i got to find a channel that actually cares and only want to teach
I have been using my 500GB Samsung 850 EVO I bought on April 17th, 2016 for a lot of video editing, countless hours of game recordings, and today (April 3rd, 2022, 2177 days after), the Samsung Magician reported 87.6 TB total bytes written (40.2GB/day usage rate), and the performance benchmark is still strong, at 542 MB/s sequential read, 519 MB/s sequential write, 84006 IOPS (random read), and 57979 IOPS (random write). Drive is currently at 80% full.
I considered buying the 850 and 950 serioues. Almost a decade and still no fail warings.
It’s like watching the bbc’s education series from the 70’s, when they had decent presenters and topics. Great video.
I noticed you copied my style
Why couldn't I have had you as a teacher in school? You explain things in an easy to understand manner and in a not complicated way. And interestingly too!
This is the most informative and easiest to understand video on this subject on TH-cam. I've went through almost all the popular videos and this one is the best at being informative and easy to learn.
ExplainingComputers : Thank You Sir ! Your presentation regarding SSD (Solid State Drive) on their limited program/erase (P/E) cycles , the discussion on the life expectancy of SLC, eMLC , MLC , and TLC drives ! Plus you also cover ~ wear levelling , over provision , TBW (Terabytes written) , PWB (Petabytes written - Petabyte = 1,024 Terabytes ) , DWPD = drive writes per day (number of full SSD P/E every 24 hours) and most modern SSD's are able to withstand 100 Terabytes written or more , thereby lasting as long as the other parts for many years in an end-user PC ! *Yes , I now have learned how an SSD functions with the different terminology explained clearly ! Thanks Scarboro
All information, clear, unambiguous, no crap
Exactly my words
and we are like a kid in philosophy lesson....!
AKA the hallmark of genius
All true. However, unless you are very technical in pcb/latency/electromagnetic ins and outs, this comes across as slightly over technical. Well covered. But whats the short version. Whats the ETA of SSD failure in a guesstimate ??
@@scottharvey-davies1607 the simple answer is - all will be suitable unless you are into very heavy useage in which case it suddenly becomes important
Your explanation about solid state drive technology is spot-on. Your forum is suitable for viewers of all computer levels, from the novice to the advanced users. Your accent adds a personal touch.
Finally, I find this! A clear answer on the subject. And explained very carefully with visual aids.
Thank You, Mr. Intelligent PC Guru!
The structure, pacing, and level of detail in this video are spot on. Thank you! Other TH-camrs, take heed.
YY & clear diction. Nothing like English spoken clearly without drama inflections etc.
nice
after spending 20 years plus building and fixing computer systems and have been out of the loop due to farming and forestry life change, I now find myself in need of an upgrade and your excellent information and presentation has brought me up to speed...keep up the good work
as stated, straight forward, no annoying music or over active shouting and gestures. Just good, sound, how to do it videos. Exactly what I googled for. Many thanks.
I regret not discovering this channel earlier. Great in-depth explanation that you can trust
Main advantage is speed. Cut waiting time. The older you are the more you need it. Life is short.
lol
Life itself kinda works like an SSD when we apply same logic onto space-time.
Smart
when you're old, you'll understand why i think you're a douchebag for giving up 100,000 writes for 10,000.
you'll just buy the new OS. you'll just buy the new s/w.
because you don't know the difference between the new s/w and someone who cared about what they were doing.
enjoy your fast 10,000. live fast die young.
@@atomictraveller What? the phrase "live fast die young" is to encourage people to take risk because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
Hard to believe that this video was recorded in the early '80s.
:)
Why don't you make a technical video and post it on TH-cam? Be sure to post a link....so I can read all the berated responses to your efforts....
uuu... someone can't take jokes, time to visit terapeutist ;)
It's like something off BBC2 !
@@Harp00nX It's that 8-bit theme music and analog sound effects!
Few years later and still useful information, thanks! Been wondering about my SSD (Samsung Pro series) and now I am more at ease.
Samsung Pro are very good drives. :)
A Magnificent and very thoroughly explanation about SSD. The best I've seen so far. Simply brilliant. Thank you for posting such a great video
Many thanks. :)
Let me save you 8 minutes. 8:38
well , thanks...cheers..
the world needs more people like you
Thanks mate got board around 4mins and saw your comment and saved myself some time.
YOU ROCK!!!
Thanks
Great information! The way you explain all these technologies and jargons so clearly, it makes it so easy for layman users. Love watching all your videos
This is a fantastic explanation. Definitely substantially increased my understanding of costs, performance and limitations. Thank you!
Thanks. :)
i don't know how but somehow your hairstyle adds to your credibility.
People who know a lot about hair, don't know anything about computers.
Proper geek hair that is
The slight lisp is full geek too... His geek game is very strong
@@fractalofgod6324 .He geeked me out i made a comment on the raspberry pi video he said it could replace a desk top pc. i said no it cant you can buy a quad core xeon that will run 24gb of ram and i bought a used hp z400 cheaper and he replied.. no you can't tottaly geeked me out. But he is wrong a raspberry pi can't run music production and video editing softwear it's a toy little computer.
@@MohsinExperiments ..with Music production and video editing you need alot of ram and cpu. but there so cheap if you know what to look for like the hpz400 you can put 6 core 3.20 ghz and there £25 used on ebay. A rasberr pi will be slow just to surf the internet even a android phone is faster.
I accidentally click on this video and I am really impressed by the way he explains about the ssd life span, his voice, his look and even his hair cut :@
so classic yet presentable and clear
Dude is brittish, ofcourse its gonna be exemplary.
Looks like he could almost be stand in for the Beatles if they were still living 😂😂
I'm getting 70's open university vibes!
I bought my first SSD 10 years ago, its a Corsair 120GB SSD, I've used it first for SO, then for games, and now to download stuff. Not one single issue so far, still running perfectly and I assure you that I've used it almost every single day.
beacuse it uses an old memory technology (SLC or MLC). Pros: More lifetime. Cons: Low write/read speeds vs actual ssd.
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@@kidrauhlpop That is a concern. However, I did not pay attention to it on my M.2 drives. Based on my expected usage. I might be upgrading in in seven to ten years anyway.
Sad, you would think longer life would be marking point.
In the future. For longer term storage, 10 years not plugged in. I will buy enterprise drives. Yes, I do buy platter drives. For moderate term. However, SSDs are a bit more physically resilient. Especially for off site backups.
@@kidrauhlpop I would rather get more life time from an SSD over speed.
@@lordpurchase9189 same here. I prefer longevity over speed because what's the sense of having something fast that will die on you when you can get something slightly slow that will certainly outlast it's rated life expectancy?
Informative, swift and sweet gentleman explains SSDs throughly. 10/10 Content.
As a professional in high tech, your video is an an _exceptionally_ well articulated summary of SSDs with just the right amount of detail. I came across this quite by accident (already know SSDs well). A couple of suggestions potentially for other videos (perhaps you have them already):
1) Comparison between SSDs and HDDs WRT reliability
2) Comparison between SSDs and HDDs WRT data recovery after failure (generally more difficult to recover off of SSDs)
Lastly, the decision to choose between SSDs and HDDs also depends on use case (e.g., whether you travel a lot and the drive will be used for your laptop) vs. a drive that is largely used for backup on a machine that is not mobile.
Again - great video!
Thanks for this. Ideas noted!
ok
@@ExplainingComputerswhat tbw of ssd u have and do u ever write lots of gigabytes when editing in the ssd?
Thank you for the "Don't Panic" message written in large, friendly letters. Your video put my mind at ease!
Thought I was back in school and about to be tested and I wasn't prepared. Great Job
Excellent video - Just installed new 1 TB drives in my home PC's. After watching this I am keeping all my data on old spindle drives & the OS on the SSD. My data will never touch the cloud.
This guy is so thorough!! Great in depth explanation. I appreciate it!
Golden rule #1: backup your data, nothing is fail proof
The 3-2-1 Backup rule remains the most wise: th-cam.com/video/rFO6NyLIP7M/w-d-xo.html :)
Yep.. and backup stuff more than just once. Maybe even 3 or times.
Agree, but with SSDs, what bothers me about them is that they are guaranteed to fail. Sticking to my beloved HDD, only ever lost 1 in my life.
Probably right.
@@NeilRoy And HDD aren't guaranteed to fail? They are. Everything breaks. Entropy sux.
HDDs have moving parts, use more electricity and heat up much more, get fragmented and are much, much slower than SSDs.
Any PC that less than 5 years old and is still running an HDD as the boot drive is slowed considerable by that HDD. Its fast processor/processors are HDD-bound, waiting way too much for stuff to do because the disk is too slow.
I wish I had seen this video a month ago; I spent 12+ hours researching SSD's in every variety. What bothered me most was that Samsung has chosen to "re-write" the terminology. I reasoned that I wanted at least MLC for a minimum, I wanted to avoid TLC. Samsung has decided to call their TLC SSD's "3MLC", never giving any reference to actual TLC drives. I ended up, after endless searching, buying a Samsung 1TB V-NAND SSD 970 PRO NVMe M.2. I am very glad to have found it. It is TRUE 2-bit MLC, with a 5-Year Limited Warranty or 1,200 TBW. Samsung sells this drive for $270, delivered; I found mine for $217, delivered.
This is the first time I've heard this... Thanks for making the complex understandable... And now I know more than when I woke up today.
Extremely informative, practically useful and that hair! Chef's kiss of perfection over here folks - dont sleep on Explaining Computers EC!
i want to say thank you very much for all your efforts, for all the things i learned watching your videos about technology. i really learned a lot about computers. you are a great teacher. you have my respect and admiration.
Thanks for your kind feedback.
Nice, real information and not a load of usual 'toober blather ! I had not thought much about the benefits of keeping space for wear leveling,
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! YOU ARE A BASTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH BY THE PUBLIC! THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK!
This was a great educational video. Learnt many things, was getting worried about the life expectancy till you assured.
How wonderful to hear information from someone who is actually old enough to know what the H--- they are talking about! Regards sir!
Thanks. :)
I take it somebody has never heard of buildzoid over at actually hardcore overclocking.
This is what I call elaborate and informative. Thank you for that.
I'd just like to add from a companies' perspective, that SSDs do hold their risks, if you have a ton of throughput in your environment and I'm not talking about PCs and consumer hardware.
We got like a couple of hundred TB of storage and a few hundred GB movement each day 5-7 days a week, so disregarding the cost factor difference (which is tremendous, btw), we rely heavily on writing and having drives needing replacement because you can't write anymore.
on top of that: if an SSD dies, it just dies.. you don't have much warnings around it, which can be a showstopper.
redundant, safe and distributed network file systems are the way to go for data centers, unless you got a really really good reason to use SSDs, take my advice: dont just put them everywhere. :D
you can always split your storage pool smartly into SSDs and HDDs and even use SSDs for caching on some systems.
thing is, in many devices/applications SSDs are almost the only choice; any time you need minimum battery consumption (mobile, remote unattendend monitoring devices, etc), shock resistance (rugged laptops, sports, etc) and light weight (same applications like the previous) you need to use SSD; also in real time critical systems you need your storage to respond as fast as the data is generated (sensors, computing algorythm, etc) so again, mechanical slow inertial hard drives are a no no; that pretty much leaves slow ,electromechanical, magnetic , bulky and power hungry drives to...data centers or some old SOHO server/pc for backups (with RAID of course)
I haven't seen you in ... forever... since you got sick. I am glad you are back, thank you again.
Respectfully,
NHG
Greetings Neil -- I have continued to be here every Sunday!
Great, clear explanation that reminded me of BBC Micro Live from my childhood. Bravo.
I dont know why there has been so many knockers for this highly informative, and well explained video on SSD drives.
For a novice like myself, I learned a lot, a good video, ( even his pommy accent was quite ok, haha ) Thanks.
The average score of this man's presentations is "Excellent"! Sharing valuable information for free like this shouldn't go underappreciated! 2.6M views and only 59K likes? I mean c'mon! Subscribed!
Thanks for the sub, and welcome aboard! :)
Very insightful. Especially the first 8 minutes, give you a clear know how of WHY ssds work the way they work.
The rest, and whats important for you (Cost, Speed, Durability) varies per use and can be figured out from that know how.
Thank you! This is very informative.
Worth every second watched!
I'm so glad I found this video after only just discovering this channel yesterday. This is probably the most useful tech video I've seen in a very long and couldn't have come at a better time as in a few weeks I will be upgrading / replacing my current SSD along with getting a laptop and making sure to get a SSD for that as well. Thanks for the information!
BTW: I currently have a Crucial 128GB SDD [M4-CT128M4SSD2] that I've been using as my main drive since spring of 2012 and it still work great, but I only ever have 12-36 GB free at most.
Sounds like you have maintained about 10%+ free space on your 128GB drive, and what is sound practice. Good luck with your upgrade and laptop! :)
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks! Definitely keeping that in mind now with my new 256GB Intel PCIe SSD.
Just the kind of information TH-cam is there for thank you!
Sir, your video presentation is very nice to watch. Congratulations on the editing, it is clear that proper care and attention to detail was taken. Very nice indeed! Thank you
Thanks for your kind feedback, most appreciated. :)
At last - a good explanation that inspires confidence! Thanks!
I learned something from this guy today in leaving some free space in my ssd... and just clicked the subscribe button
Thanks for the sub. Welcome aboard! :)
ExplainingComputers to start my Sunday morning? sounds like a good deal to me!
Excellent. :)
Agreed. Christopher, Thank you for making such excellent videos! Your presentation methodology and technique is very appealing and enjoyable!
Seriously?
Some people just never grow up . . . and before anybody opens their mouth and tries to connect my TH-cam name with immaturity, this just happens to *BE* my name. Just because certain people would rather make it into something dirty is THEIR problem, not mine.
Um, ok. Where did that come from? I don't see the problem with your name.
I know this is a 3 year old vid now, but a really good video to explain the in's & out's of lifespans of SSD drives. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Undoubtedly one of the best tech TH-cam channel. No mumbo jumbo.
Nice one dude very comprehensive and easy on the ear. keep up the good work
Thanks.
This is the only intellectual person that I highly respect in the field of digital technology on TH-cam.
Many thanks for your kind comment. :)
This is a very informative video. I thank you for posting it. This has been a question of mine for some time now. I switched everything over to SSDs a couple of years ago for the speed, quiet and cool operation, ruggedness, and perceived reliability. I have not been disappointed. But, I was concerned about longevity. I back up everything to the cloud and to the old hard drives I removed which now are connected to the NAS via the router. Out of sight and earshot. I feel reassured these SSD drives will outlast the computer for which they provide service. Thank you.
I've been wanting to get digitally organized for some time now. I've only just discovered your channel so I'm behind but yes! I used to be the "Low disk space" guy and I'm still proving that trend on SSD's that I never had when I was younger. It was always throw aways from the school my dad worked at. So I grew up on no more than 80GB IDE HDD's. So this is the extra motivational boost to get stuff organized! Haha!
Lovely informative video as always, Chris! You're good at what you do, keep at it! :)
Oop, one thing! Typo @ 3:03!
Many thanks. :)
Mistake where he shows the green blocks of data being written to an SSD. Most SSDs take up less than half the space inside the metal enclosure. Watch more teardowns.
That was an analogy for how "wear leveling" evens out flash cell use. Not for what is inside the enclosure.
I like this gentleman's presentations as they seem technically correct without going off the deep end. Some of his videos go pretty fast, so I slow them down with the playback rate setting since some important points whiz by without my fully comprehending. But then my poor aged brain seems to be running at a slower clock rate these days... LOL Been twiddling with homebrew computers since Altair but the changes just keep coming fast and furious - so it's nice to have someone lay out the latest greatest bit-wizardry in plain EE speak without the "fog" of marketing!
Great video and helpful. I have switched to all SSDs on my computers. I thought they were all the same. I have a LapTop with a SDD and a HDD. I use the SSD for programs and HDD for data but the SSD ran out of space. This LapTop was top-of-the-live 8 years ago. I had no idea that keeping the SSD almost full was potentially going to start leading to problems. Now I understand how to match my SSD upgrade to my needs. Thanks!!!
Is it also recommended to leave 10% of a drive free with external HD?
It is not necessary with a HDD, although HDDs that are very full will get slower. But life expectancy will not be reduced.
Defragmenting needs free space and without defragmenting the HDD will become slow (even more slow should I say).
@@ExplainingComputers I have my movie HDD (2TB WD from 2009) completely full many years and it's still working with no problem, maybe it's slower, I don't know, I don't need fast HDD for play some movie. But I had only 5 years old 3TB Seagate and it died, but it was not completely full.
@@Pidalin your WD is an outlier. If you have any data on it that’s truly important I suggest you back it up. On average a HDD will die within 3-5 years.
@@Arby631 It's only for movies, when it dies, it dies. I have backup of movies which are important for me (I have few movies where I puted our dubbing as another sound track so I don't want to lose that, but 90% of movies are not important or it's on netflix) I have new WD RED for important data and another new seagate for extra backup. HDDs are very reliable if you don't get bad series like it happened to me with seagate 3GB 5 years ago. Most of HDDs I had survived 10 or more years and I mostly damaged it with some mechanical hit to computer.
BTW it's from 2010, not 2009, I remembered it not correctly.
the voice feels like I am watching a 90s computer hardware show :) Nice videos btw :) I just clicked the subscribe button :)
Welcome aboard! :)
yeah he sounds like the way Carol Vorderman speaks. Spooky :o
I loved old school lecture :)
He should be in those 80s how to connect you BBC micro to the bulletin board programms.
And full of geeky terms just like the 90's
I love this guy! reminds me childhood educational videos.
I really like how you explains everything! Thanks you. This is from 4 years ago and still relevant! Just installed my SSD with 512 Gb and made a partition with 150 Gb in it for W10. Now don't sound like a good plan. Gota expand that partition to the fully 512 GB cuz I really want it to last. Thanks for explaining this things so good!
I watched this 3 years ago, my drive is still alive!
Bro i use pdf reading, surfing and video editing on my laptop. My budget is very tight. I am getting kingston 120gb for 1599,240gb for 2399. What should I do?
My hdd C drive has 88gb space used up.
@@souravde970 240 GB will have more P/E cycles, as mentioned in the video and thus last longer if you leave 10-20% of space unconsumed.
Hard to believe that this man still checks the comments in a 6 years video 😊
I do!
Keep up the good work!!! This was helpful in building my new pc.
Very, very well explained and truly helpful video. Many, many thanks for helping me understand all those cryptic acronyms (or not exactly acronyms, such as NAND) and their actual significance for an average user as myself. Great presentation, many thanks again for that.
Watched 3 videos from this channel and I love it! Instant sub and notifications for me. You explain things so well.
Welcome aboard!
came for the SSD explanation - stayed for the Haircut :D
Ok... I LOL'd hard on that one.
He's like Steve Davis' attractive brother
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
That's a mighty fine haircut, though...
This man lives today but is actually alive in the 70s
Honestly this video had me really worried because I've been using a cheap SSD for windows for just under three years but then you talked about overprovisioning and I've been doing that just because I like having free space all this time, glad to know that my weird habits were actually in my benefit because I don't know what I'd do if my SSD died on me (I don't know how to recover windows and all of my lost data if that stuff dies with the SSD). Thank you for also explaining the different types and their expected P/E cycles, I gotta keep that in mind for the next time I go SSD shopping!
Rule number one - if you don't back up your drive will fail and you will loose all your data. If you do back up all your data, your drive will never fail. It is always better to back up all your data, and the really important stuff, back up to a 2nd drive or blu ray disc or something and put that in a separate location like a bank security box, in case you have a home fire, flood, tornado etc. And let someone else know where it is, incase you fall down the stairs and break your neck, or die in a car crash - oh I sound so all doom and gloom ! But you get the point, back up, back up, back up - and let someone know your passwords and where the back ups are - even if they find out after you are no longer living. I read a story once where a man died and his wife and children were cleaning out the basement and almost threw out a box of bonds worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. They thought the box was full of old papers and trash - no one knew he had bonds worth anything in that box. If he had included a letter to be opened upon his death spelling it out, that would have been smart. There is also stories on the web, of a family buying a house and finding a metal box in the basement rafters - full of cash... no one knew it was there. The story never said if they returned it to the previous owners or if that was even possible, but some of the money was very rare and worth a lot more than the nomination printed on the bills. Always better to be safe than sorry. I didn't mean to preach.
@@kfl611 You didn't mean to preach, yet you did. Thanks for the information, it was an interesting read!
I'm gratified to hear I was doing it right all along when i purchased my Dell laptop with SSD. I at the same time purchased two external SSDs of 500 GB and 1 TB, and copy back-up data to both. I will in future acquire the largest onboard and external drives for my use.. Thank you for that you do for us the consumer at large.
edit: because my inability to spell at times is utterly shocking... ^~^
Nice detailed overview! This was helpful. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
I upgrade to Samsung SSD's in my laptops. Night and day difference. Everything faster, cooler temps, and hardly any noise. Good presentation 😎👍
Awesome teacher I never had.
4 year old tech video and information still useful.
Thanks!
I've been blessed with knowledge. I'm eager for getting a new laptop/pc just to enjoy those incredibly fast boot times :DD
Great videos. Well organized, and most importantly, well scripted! Subbed.
Welcome aboard!
6 years old usage, zero problems, love the SSD
I have a 6 year old ADATA SP550, it has been used and abused with gaming, large file transfers, and many hours of daily driving.
MHDD report zero issues and read and write speeds are as advertised!
Noice
@@wileymonair How do you managed to use that long? I've bought a used one then the HDDSentinel came up with 9% health left with 655.4GB of lifetime writes. Mine's a TLC SSD. Can see that Windows is spitting out errors. Windows Store couldn't download apps even though I've reinstalled Windows 10 which is the latest 20H2 for ten times lol.
@@NextGeneration9501 what ssd? how many TBW it has on the first bought? how many GigaBytes you written on one day average? how long has been used?
@@NextGeneration9501 Might be a windows issue. Other utilities that check SSD's would be designed for SSD's, not hard disk drives (HDD).
December 2020...and you got me as a new subscriber. Thank you so much I have learned a lot from this tutorial video.
Thanks for the sub -- welcome aboard!
Thanks. Very valuable info. I did not know very much about the technical specs of SSDs.
Very Educational! Learned more here in less than 10 mins than a evening's worth of video and googling... Thanks! More Power to you , keep it up!
Leon O But this was a video :|
Buying my SSD was the best thing i ever done. My three plus year laptop (I7, 16GB RAM) got a new lease on life when I upgraded to SSD (1TB), it really made the whole system blazing fast. In my opinion, definitely recommend switching to SSD, if you see your laptop/desktop becoming 'sluggish' after a few years.
Aye..replacing an old, sluggish hard drive with an SSD usually does speed things up a bit..I’d be extremely disappointed if it didn’t..lol
This man is my deciding factor why I should buy SSD, I'm glad I found his channel and about this video. I lost my External Hard Drive it got corrupted after my laptop battery got empty, so sensitive that's why I want to switch on SSD. Thanks.
Great information and well presented. Believe it or not I like his hair cut, it appears simple and easy to maintain. Great Work!
840 Evo 120 GB still working after 4 years :)
Good to know. Great drives the Samsung 840s -- Evo or Pro.
My 128gb samsung 830 is still working after 3,5years and my pc is on 24/7
The same here for the 512GB pro version, Magician says drive condition is GOOD after a total of 20TB written.
840 Evo were actually the worst, they have a "read performance bug" that can't get fixed with new firmware.
Samsung pm810 256 - 7 years old 24/7 operation. Still going strong and reports 87% healthy.
Hi Chris, this video suddenly reappeared in my recommendations and I absolutely love how you convey ALL information in just 9 minutes. I recently purchased 2 second hand SSD's with good standing (one a 860 EVO 500GB with only 3 TB's written in total and one a 850 EVO 500GB with 17 TB's written in total). I absolutely LOVE EVO SSD's :)
EVO SSDs are great drives.
This news is encouraging. Thanks. Watching from the Philippines.
Excellent and informative presentation. Keep up the good work!
Vintage vibes. Liking the delivery.
Thanks for the explanation, especially the point about leaving at least 10% free. I'm constantly running my 250gb start up SSD to the limit, despite having a 1tb hdd for data inside my 27" iMac. I had no idea the harm I was doing to the SSD. Going to address this immediately. Namely putting my downloads and pictures folder in the hdd and keeping at least 50% free in the SSD.
Great video. Very informative. When there are significant changes, it'd be great to update this video to reflect modern drives and technologies. Cheers
Finally, someone holding a tablet properly, in landscape mode! That alone earned you a subscription
:) Welcome aboard!
The screen size of mobile devices and tablets is too small for placing horizontal text on a vertical layout. To fix that issue you render the text in landscape mode and it works wonders
Love your videos :-) you have a fantastic voice and a great way of explaining things to make it easy to understand :-)
Many thanks.
Your presentation can seem a bit tongue in cheek, like any second you are going to burst out laughing and say 'fooled you!'
I second that.. b(^_^)... most tend to get carried away with themselves and get for too technical.. this guy would be a superb lecturer!!
MrSnowdog73 he is in the Beatles band I think
And his “doo” is pretty skippy too!
fantastic video, very informative
This is the best and most 'to the point' TH-cam channel on computers
Thanks.
I have used four of these wonderful EVO Samsung drives for many years now and not one has failed me yet. Fantastic product, worth every penny.
I can only agree -- the EVOs are great drives.
@@ExplainingComputers I need your help and advice.
I have a Asus P43E-XH31 laptop that I bought in mid-January 2011.
It came with a 500-gigabyte Perpendicular-Magnetic-Recording 7,200rpm SATA3 2.5-inch--platter hard-disk-drive.
It came preconfigured from-the-factory with a hidden 27GB "Recovery" partition, a 200GB "C"-partition for Windows, and a empty "D" partition with the rest of the space.
One day for no reason at all, Windows refused to boot. Installing Linux-Mint in the space once occupied by the empty "D" partition rescued my computer and made it bootable-into-a-OS again.
---> (the partition is 100GB for the "system" partition, 8 gigabytes for the "swap" partition, and the rest of the space for the "home" partition).
My Windows partition has 76 GB remaining, and I want to and need to replace this 500GB storage-space with something bigger.
I was thinking 2 TB.
However unfortunately, all HDD manufacturers have transitioned their 1TB and 2TB HDD's to Shingled-Magnetic-Recording instead-of keeping-them on Perpendicular-Magnetic-Recording.
I write stuff to my computer's hard-drive daily (that computer is my daily-driver, after all). ●Scanning pictures from my photo-albums into a digital format, and organizing them and cataloging them. ●Organizing my Video files and Picture files. ●Burning my music-CDs to "192k VBR"-bitrate MP3s so I could hear them on my MP3 player. ●Downloading .iso files of Linux distros and trying them out. ●Writing essays and doing other University assignments on my computer. ●The list goes on and on. I do alot of Write-intensive stuff on my computer.
So, obviously, I need something with durability, top quality, good performance, great longevity, great endurance, etc.
I was able to find 2TB "Samsung 870 Evo" SSDs ("TLC" NAND flash with DRAM cache) still for-sale on Newegg. As well as 2TB "Samsung 860 Pro" SSDs ("MLC" NAND flash with DRAM cache). However unfortunately, they're asking $210 for the Evo, and $495 for the Pro.
I get the feeling people will ask me "which one is in your budget?", towhich then I'll say "both. What I do is that I'll just keep accumulating cash until I can buy the one I chose/selected". (And obviously, the Evo will be quicker-to-get because it's cheaper. But the Pro has more Endurance,-Longevity, etcetera).
Which-one should I get? The "Evo" or the "Pro" ?