If your OS is using RAM within 80% of your current RAM, as mine was at 6.2 GB with 8 GB RAM, getting more RAM will significantly reduce SSD writes. I did, bumping my RAM up to 16 GB, and my SSD's wear was cut by about 30% while avoiding significant slowdowns caused by memory caching to drive. As it is, in 4 years of use, my 1 TB drive has had 42.9 TB written and Samsung Magician reports my drive remains in Good condition, the same as it was during the earliest months.
That's just what the warranty period is unless it is a very cheap SSD it should far exceed what the warranty guarantees. I just got a 1 GB. connection and I just got my first 1 TB SSD and I am going to use it. I have already written 4.4 TB in six days I am not going to baby this thing. If it dies really early I will go back to an old spinning drive , but after seeing your video I am more at ease!
@@tdcattech If you have not enough RAM for your applications (multiple JAVA IDEs) then it's easy to get 1 TB of writes per day because of swap. Swap lets you use macs quite comfortably even when you have 8 GB of RAM, but it accelerates the wear of the SSD. I managed to kill my m1 Mac mini in less than 2 years because of that.
For a lot of people it may not be much to worry about but it is something we should keep in mind. When they finally fail they may stop working or go into a read only mode. I don't know which drives do what but I would hope that most reputable manufacturers would make them read only when they wear out from too many writes. This way you can get your files back without having to send it for recovery which is expensive. Unless you can do it yourself (good luck!) or have a friend who can do it free or cheaper it will be expensive. I highly recommend knowing what is stored on it before you send it for recovery. You would not want to pay to recover junk or files you backed up already! If it is just documents you have paper copies of or backups of you may decide to hold off on that data recovery service unless you had documents that you really need to keep and don't know if you kept other copies. Unless you have more money than you know what to do with I would just look and see if still have copies of my stuff.
Just write this here in case it helps someone with something: Average user. No heavy duty working. 70~75% full all the time. However the PC is on 24/7 with only several dozen days off/year. After 3 years OS drive hit 43 TBW (NAND write). Regardless of its TBW (80 or 120, I just can't remember) I'd dare say it will still work fine for 2 more years before my next build coming.
Yes. TBW figures would grow in relation to disk size and yes, theoretically it’s good to have a disk larger than you need otherwise you’ll potentially be writing over those same cells much more often. Plus the performance of SSD drives drops considerably when full.
I built my first SSD-based PC tower in 2017. I just replaced that SSD in 2023 mostly out of a feeling that at some point it will fail, but at the time I pulled the drive it was functioning perfectly. Its replacement is also physically smaller (m.2 drive instead of 2.5 inch) and potentially quicker (NVMe instead of SATA connection), but I don't actually notice the speed increase. The change from spinning platters to a SATA SSD was instantly noticeable. The change from a SATA SSD to an NVMe SSD is much less noticeable.
i have a samsung 970 evo plus 1TB as a system drive. PC is contantly powered on and has been for 2 years occasionally ill restart the pc but its mostly on, i have all my game launchers on there like steam epic uplay etc netflix and disney+, i specifically bought this drive for microsoft flight simulator 2020 so thats on the nvme drive too, it still seems to be running great after 30TB written. this drive improves flight sim, phasmophobia and windows loading times dramically 12 seconds to load windows 2 minutes im on the run way 1 minute im been hunted by Derrick johnson, this drive is faster than a Revenant!
I have sent two SSD drives for RMA already this year out of about ten I am using. I am not even considered "heavy user". I don't even do video recording or editing. No I don't think you've got this one right. The newer QLC drives are just way less reliable.
Every extra "level" (from SLC to MLC to TLC to QLC) surely decreases reliability, and the manufacturer of the drive plays a large role in the quality of the parts. Also there are no guarantees -- 8 units may be absolutely reliable for years and 2 fail after the first week. I can't think of anything built by humans which works 100% of the time. Best thing to say is have multiple backups of all important files (preferably on different types of media to avoid just that kind of issue).
If you want to figure out how much you need to write to the SSD to wear it out, multiply the Program/Erase Cycles (P/E) by the capacity of the drive. So if you have a 1TB drive that says it can take 500 P/E cycles, it means you need to write a total of 500TB to wear out the drive. Thing is though, unless you're really hammering the SSD, you'll probably just write 3TB to 15TB a year. Do the math. 500/15 = 33.3 years So yeah, no need to worry. You'd have to deliberately wear out your SSD to wear it out. You'll probably run out of storage space much sooner than you'd run out of P/E cycles. SSD prices are coming down all the time also, and by the time you need to buy a new one, it'll be much cheaper. (Just recently got a 1TB Lexar NM610 Pro for $30 after coupon!! Probably QLC but for the price, it's still a steal.) Consider also that most hard drives last just 5-10 years, and yet nobody is complaining how quickly they wear out. I'd worry more about a hard drive failing than an SSD, TBH.
Nice video. I have seen numerous videos on this subject but even though it always seems we don't have to worry about this issue, I have had some fails. I have had a few USB thumb drives go bad (Read Only or just dead) which were not that old or heavily used. I have also had a 1 TB Western Digital SSD go into Read only mode (Can read if the system can see it but cannot write, format or erase), This drive was only 11 month old, used very little. Was still under warranty but I did not want to send for replacement as had personal info which I could not erase. So not very impressive. I have numerous older Mechanical drives that are 10,15,20 years old still working fine. Go figure... Also because of this I would never recommend using SSD drives in NAS units (I have 2) or servers because of my experiences. I am a tech person (retired) so I have seen many situations. If you just want a fast boot drive for your computer, sure by all means. If you store your data on a separate drive(s) then SSD drives may not offer much performance increase and they draw much more current than most mechanical drives. In any case, BACK-UP your stuff ! then if your drive dies - who cares. My two cents for what it's worth. Regards to All. 😀
Server SSDs. Most people dont know they exist & you can like a 2700TBW server one instead of a 600TBW consumer one of the same size. Also price matters hugely for SSD. Seriously spending just 10 bucks on getting a slightly nicer brand one can double or triple the durability. Also size matters of cause. I do think that most consumer drives even the cheaper ones are going to go completely obsolete before durability runs out for the normal users. I do remember the early SSD days where we had tiny ssds of like 15-50gb like i had 2 of those Ocz Vertex ones & managed to brutalize one of them to death in about 2 years. But i also abused by riding it like a F1 car. The tech is on a completely different level today. Still dont forget to backup :)
thank you for this enlightening considerations. Actually, aside from the main system drive, I tend to write once the files to the drive, and very rarely I erase this data to write anew .... so the final TBW is hardly two times the total capacity of the drive (2 write cycles). For instance with video editing and video files .... I will seldom erase a drive once I have filled it to rewrite new data, and if I do, it will not be tens of write cycles. I suppose the main drive has more writing and erasing and rewriting .... but I can hardly see how I could write 60GB per day every day (which means also erasing and rewriting) as you do, in your heavy usage.
There is another downside to NVMe drives in addition to the loss of capacity: They are apparently rubbish. If you check every Amazon listing from the el cheapo generics to the pricey Kingston Fury Renegardes, they are disparaged by between 21 and 9 percent of users. Often they simply die after a few months, or they are incompatible with some systems, or they crash a system. The mature technology of a spinning drive can last for decades with negligible loss of capacity to bad sectors, so instead of using only 25% of the capacity you can freely use 99% and not lose any sleep. Just today I received three used enterprise drives with 30,000 hours on them and after a thorough test I will have no hesitation using them. They typically warn you when problems arise. If you rely on an NVMe, you need good backup discipline and a spare computer. That said, when they behave, they are terrific. The question is, why can't at least one manufacturer make one you can trust? We have the technology, just not the will to make a premium model.
I have a aad that is almost a decade old. And every cell is still in good health. Still going strong. Nvme is only s different communication protocol and do not differ in terms of lifespan.
Sounds like you encountered a common firmware problem. Not that it helps much but the actual flash cells are most probably still in good health but the controller thinks they are corrupted and shutted down.
I've never been a fan of Samsung quality. I've used all INTEL (now operating under name SOLIDIGM) datacenter-grade SSD's since my first ones in 2015 & they are all still going strong today & rated at 100 health - even the ones from 2015 (which are 2.5" SATA3 SSD's, from before the M.2 boom).
Most dead SSD's these days are likely due to low component quality (choose brands/types carefully), poor heat regulation (use proper heatsinks), or simply defective individual units in some manner. The typical avid gamer/home PC user only writes between 5-6TB PER YEAR to their primary drive, on average. Most M.2 SSD these days have a TBW endurance rating of anywhere from 100TB o 1200TB. Even on the low end that is a LOT of years of write use, assuming drive doesn't die due to some other reason unrelated to its write endurance rating (TBW). So, buy high-quality component SSD's & pay the extra $$$, & don't use it without some sort of heatsink. I've always used SOLIDIGM-INTEL professional-grade (enterprise-class) M.2 or 2.5" SATA3 SSD's myself & never had any issues since my first ones in 2015.
Most SSD will last well beyond the life of your computer. Especially newer drives. However even older ones will last for many years. If you do video production I would grab a external drive and write projects to two. One as a back up. If you are using computers for a business and have really important data always back up but don't worry about the life of your SSD.
I think newer drives might last shorter than older drives. As SSDs get cheaper more models will feature QLC as everyone races to the bottom. There's no way QLC can outlast a good TLC or MLC SSD.
can you tell why my external SSD drive of 30 TB cannot be seen and I have to plug t into the usb again before it registers and I can read and write?....It registers at 30 TB of memory all the time.
okay, now we know the approximate life-span of an ssd. my next question is: assuming i use my ssd for archiving music, videos and pictures, and i've write on it up-to its max tbw. will i be able to still watch the videos or listen to the music? if what they're saying are true, reading the ssd won't cause any wear and tear to the nand, whouldn't it makes ssd become almost perfect storage for archiving? sounds too good to be true?
Archiving is a different issue. Written data does not last indefinitely on flash memory. You'd probably be better with an older drive where the fight for space was not so great and the tolerances not so high but there is degradation over time. I wonder how well it would work to rewrite the archive once a year or so? Maybe that would extend the life oddly. I'm just guessing now.
Bought a 980pro 2TB late February. It’s already dead smh. I’m hesitant to send it to Samsung because I can’t erase my data on it since it’s stuck on write-protection mode.
Sadly you most likely ran into a common firmware problem. Where your actual physical storage is still totslly fine but your memory controller+firmware thinks your drive is corrupted. Hope you found a dolution in the mean time.
SSDs may have over provisioning and they may also have wear leveling. Not all of them were made to do these things. Every time you read or write data on a SSD you are forever using up some of its VERY short life span. The cost per GB is enormous compared to a HDD. With mechanical hard disk drives you'll get millions of read/writes to it before it starts to exhibit tell tale signs it is about to die. You don't get those warnings from a SSD. Software may show that its health is fine and then the next moment it dies taking all your data and software with it! The trade-off of using them doesn't make sense to me. Not for main storage. I can get an external 14 TB USB 3.x WD MyBook for about $300. Ain't no way you're going to match that capacity for the same price from any legitimate SSD. Sure they're faster, use less power, run silent, and are impervious to sudden shock and magnetic fields. But their lifespan / reliability is pure shit. Besides it is getting harder and harder to find a laptop that offers HDDs for internal storage. When my Windows 10 laptop stops being supported by MicroSoft it'll likely live out its days as an offline machine. If I can't buy a laptop with a WD HDD inside I'll just stick with tower PCs where I can have HDDs in them. Plus optical disc drives for Blu-Ray DVDs, DVDs, CDs.
Damn. How to say you do little as work possible with out saying you do little as work possible on that machine. 😂 CD/DVD? Yikes... didn't even know those drives were still used...
still got my first ssd still using it , was a 30gb that i got almost 12 years a go .. is a OCZ the company no longer exist got 10ssd still no one has fall ,
My ADATA SX6000 250GB & SX8200 PRO 1TB. Just live for 2 years normal use in the computer browsing & gaming 6hrs in weekdays & 16hrs in weekdends. Its always depends on the BRAND! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SSD drives have a finite life but no-one really knows how long. Drives are made to have minimum specs for retention but as for the max, it's really anyone's guess. I know I've had flash storage untouched for at least a few years without any problems. Ten years might be a stretch.
@@tdcattech Agreeable to that. Yeah, it does need energy atleast so it retains energy ( memory ) personal perspective on how devices works, but atleast I heard your thoughts, it's important to me. Thank you!
Some companies claim that you can let their sad unpowered in shelfes for 10+ years eithout your data beeing corrupted, but how they can make that claims i habe no idea.
Nope, Fill your SSD @ 90% Capacity, then use it as a heavy user and also use you SSD as Virtual Memory then Tell me that your 26 Years calculation will become less than a year in reality!
Thanks for reminding a very important also (but missed) information in this video. This is why I no longer recommend 128GB SSDs - they're for people who really know what they're doing (Linux, just-enough, bang-for-buck IT guys), not to be mistook for a budget option. What's the point of going cheap when you have to spend money more often to repair/replace/upgrade the thing....
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Amazing high quality video. Not many people talking about this subject which is very important to the consumer knowledge.
If your OS is using RAM within 80% of your current RAM, as mine was at 6.2 GB with 8 GB RAM, getting more RAM will significantly reduce SSD writes. I did, bumping my RAM up to 16 GB, and my SSD's wear was cut by about 30% while avoiding significant slowdowns caused by memory caching to drive.
As it is, in 4 years of use, my 1 TB drive has had 42.9 TB written and Samsung Magician reports my drive remains in Good condition, the same as it was during the earliest months.
I've moved my `temp`(windows) or `.cache` (linux) dirs to ram drive. Daily writes have reduced to jaw dropping low.
That's just what the warranty period is unless it is a very cheap SSD it should far exceed what the warranty guarantees. I just got a 1 GB. connection and I just got my first 1 TB SSD and I am going to use it. I have already written 4.4 TB in six days I am not going to baby this thing. If it dies really early I will go back to an old spinning drive , but after seeing your video I am more at ease!
So did the ssd still live? 4.4TB in 6 days holy hell what did u do?
my real experience ssd life span 2 years exactly, ssd issue hidden when reach limited tbw problem and undetected or damaged. hdd better than ssd
2 years?! That’s terrible. That must be some seriously heavy use.
@@tdcattech If you have not enough RAM for your applications (multiple JAVA IDEs) then it's easy to get 1 TB of writes per day because of swap. Swap lets you use macs quite comfortably even when you have 8 GB of RAM, but it accelerates the wear of the SSD. I managed to kill my m1 Mac mini in less than 2 years because of that.
@@DamianLesiukyup i think more people have to be aware of that. Its an "easy fix" when people know whats important for their spesific use case.
For a lot of people it may not be much to worry about but it is something we should keep in mind. When they finally fail they may stop working or go into a read only mode. I don't know which drives do what but I would hope that most reputable manufacturers would make them read only when they wear out from too many writes. This way you can get your files back without having to send it for recovery which is expensive. Unless you can do it yourself (good luck!) or have a friend who can do it free or cheaper it will be expensive. I highly recommend knowing what is stored on it before you send it for recovery. You would not want to pay to recover junk or files you backed up already! If it is just documents you have paper copies of or backups of you may decide to hold off on that data recovery service unless you had documents that you really need to keep and don't know if you kept other copies. Unless you have more money than you know what to do with I would just look and see if still have copies of my stuff.
Agree. Just one word. Backup! People only seem to do that after they have a failure as you say.
Just write this here in case it helps someone with something:
Average user. No heavy duty working. 70~75% full all the time. However the PC is on 24/7 with only several dozen days off/year. After 3 years OS drive hit 43 TBW (NAND write). Regardless of its TBW (80 or 120, I just can't remember) I'd dare say it will still work fine for 2 more years before my next build coming.
Best ssd video on youtube. Thank you very much
Very nice video!
So life span grows linearly with the size of the drive, as long as the used space is much smaller than the drive size.
Yes. TBW figures would grow in relation to disk size and yes, theoretically it’s good to have a disk larger than you need otherwise you’ll potentially be writing over those same cells much more often. Plus the performance of SSD drives drops considerably when full.
@@tdcattechhow much tbw is yur ssd editing machine
I built my first SSD-based PC tower in 2017. I just replaced that SSD in 2023 mostly out of a feeling that at some point it will fail, but at the time I pulled the drive it was functioning perfectly. Its replacement is also physically smaller (m.2 drive instead of 2.5 inch) and potentially quicker (NVMe instead of SATA connection), but I don't actually notice the speed increase. The change from spinning platters to a SATA SSD was instantly noticeable. The change from a SATA SSD to an NVMe SSD is much less noticeable.
i have a samsung 970 evo plus 1TB as a system drive. PC is contantly powered on and has been for 2 years occasionally ill restart the pc but its mostly on, i have all my game launchers on there like steam epic uplay etc netflix and disney+, i specifically bought this drive for microsoft flight simulator 2020 so thats on the nvme drive too, it still seems to be running great after 30TB written. this drive improves flight sim, phasmophobia and windows loading times dramically 12 seconds to load windows 2 minutes im on the run way 1 minute im been hunted by Derrick johnson, this drive is faster than a Revenant!
I have sent two SSD drives for RMA already this year out of about ten I am using. I am not even considered "heavy user". I don't even do video recording or editing. No I don't think you've got this one right. The newer QLC drives are just way less reliable.
Every extra "level" (from SLC to MLC to TLC to QLC) surely decreases reliability, and the manufacturer of the drive plays a large role in the quality of the parts. Also there are no guarantees -- 8 units may be absolutely reliable for years and 2 fail after the first week. I can't think of anything built by humans which works 100% of the time. Best thing to say is have multiple backups of all important files (preferably on different types of media to avoid just that kind of issue).
Use tlc then noob ;)
If you want to figure out how much you need to write to the SSD to wear it out, multiply the Program/Erase Cycles (P/E) by the capacity of the drive. So if you have a 1TB drive that says it can take 500 P/E cycles, it means you need to write a total of 500TB to wear out the drive.
Thing is though, unless you're really hammering the SSD, you'll probably just write 3TB to 15TB a year.
Do the math.
500/15 = 33.3 years
So yeah, no need to worry. You'd have to deliberately wear out your SSD to wear it out. You'll probably run out of storage space much sooner than you'd run out of P/E cycles.
SSD prices are coming down all the time also, and by the time you need to buy a new one, it'll be much cheaper. (Just recently got a 1TB Lexar NM610 Pro for $30 after coupon!! Probably QLC but for the price, it's still a steal.)
Consider also that most hard drives last just 5-10 years, and yet nobody is complaining how quickly they wear out. I'd worry more about a hard drive failing than an SSD, TBH.
Nice video. I have seen numerous videos on this subject but even though it always seems we don't have to worry about this issue, I have had some fails. I have had a few USB thumb drives go bad (Read Only or just dead) which were not that old or heavily used. I have also had a 1 TB Western Digital SSD go into Read only mode (Can read if the system can see it but cannot write, format or erase), This drive was only 11 month old, used very little. Was still under warranty but I did not want to send for replacement as had personal info which I could not erase. So not very impressive. I have numerous older Mechanical drives that are 10,15,20 years old still working fine. Go figure...
Also because of this I would never recommend using SSD drives in NAS units (I have 2) or servers because of my experiences. I am a tech person (retired) so I have seen many situations. If you just want a fast boot drive for your computer, sure by all means. If you store your data on a separate drive(s) then SSD drives may not offer much performance increase and they draw much more current than most mechanical drives. In any case, BACK-UP your stuff ! then if your drive dies - who cares. My two cents for what it's worth. Regards to All. 😀
I own Thinkpad t420s with Samsung SSD 128gb. In CD drive I have HDD for data. Works like a charm.
Server SSDs. Most people dont know they exist & you can like a 2700TBW server one instead of a 600TBW consumer one of the same size. Also price matters hugely for SSD. Seriously spending just 10 bucks on getting a slightly nicer brand one can double or triple the durability. Also size matters of cause. I do think that most consumer drives even the cheaper ones are going to go completely obsolete before durability runs out for the normal users. I do remember the early SSD days where we had tiny ssds of like 15-50gb like i had 2 of those Ocz Vertex ones & managed to brutalize one of them to death in about 2 years. But i also abused by riding it like a F1 car. The tech is on a completely different level today. Still dont forget to backup :)
thank you for this enlightening considerations. Actually, aside from the main system drive, I tend to write once the files to the drive, and very rarely I erase this data to write anew .... so the final TBW is hardly two times the total capacity of the drive (2 write cycles). For instance with video editing and video files .... I will seldom erase a drive once I have filled it to rewrite new data, and if I do, it will not be tens of write cycles. I suppose the main drive has more writing and erasing and rewriting .... but I can hardly see how I could write 60GB per day every day (which means also erasing and rewriting) as you do, in your heavy usage.
how long ssd dan retain data without power?? please explain too. thanks sir
Excellent video and very detailed average info on the ssd drive generally to put peoples mind to ease..thnx😉
Is there a aay to know the ssd qlc mlc if not specified by the manufacturer?
Thank you so so so much for dissipating so much cloud in my mind! Great job!🎉😊
There is another downside to NVMe drives in addition to the loss of capacity: They are apparently rubbish. If you check every Amazon listing from the el cheapo generics to the pricey Kingston Fury Renegardes, they are disparaged by between 21 and 9 percent of users. Often they simply die after a few months, or they are incompatible with some systems, or they crash a system. The mature technology of a spinning drive can last for decades with negligible loss of capacity to bad sectors, so instead of using only 25% of the capacity you can freely use 99% and not lose any sleep. Just today I received three used enterprise drives with 30,000 hours on them and after a thorough test I will have no hesitation using them. They typically warn you when problems arise. If you rely on an NVMe, you need good backup discipline and a spare computer. That said, when they behave, they are terrific. The question is, why can't at least one manufacturer make one you can trust? We have the technology, just not the will to make a premium model.
I have a aad that is almost a decade old. And every cell is still in good health. Still going strong. Nvme is only s different communication protocol and do not differ in terms of lifespan.
My 2TB Samsung 980 PRO just died a couple of days ago after only 1.5 years and with 4.7 TBW.
Now that's just rotten luck 😕
Did Samsung send you a replacement?
Sounds like you encountered a common firmware problem. Not that it helps much but the actual flash cells are most probably still in good health but the controller thinks they are corrupted and shutted down.
I've never been a fan of Samsung quality. I've used all INTEL (now operating under name SOLIDIGM) datacenter-grade SSD's since my first ones in 2015 & they are all still going strong today & rated at 100 health - even the ones from 2015 (which are 2.5" SATA3 SSD's, from before the M.2 boom).
Most dead SSD's these days are likely due to low component quality (choose brands/types carefully), poor heat regulation (use proper heatsinks), or simply defective individual units in some manner. The typical avid gamer/home PC user only writes between 5-6TB PER YEAR to their primary drive, on average. Most M.2 SSD these days have a TBW endurance rating of anywhere from 100TB o 1200TB. Even on the low end that is a LOT of years of write use, assuming drive doesn't die due to some other reason unrelated to its write endurance rating (TBW). So, buy high-quality component SSD's & pay the extra $$$, & don't use it without some sort of heatsink. I've always used SOLIDIGM-INTEL professional-grade (enterprise-class) M.2 or 2.5" SATA3 SSD's myself & never had any issues since my first ones in 2015.
Thankyou very much sir wonderful information. I'm gonna stop worrying now 😅
Most SSD will last well beyond the life of your computer. Especially newer drives. However even older ones will last for many years. If you do video production I would grab a external drive and write projects to two. One as a back up. If you are using computers for a business and have really important data always back up but don't worry about the life of your SSD.
I think newer drives might last shorter than older drives. As SSDs get cheaper more models will feature QLC as everyone races to the bottom. There's no way QLC can outlast a good TLC or MLC SSD.
can you tell why my external SSD drive of 30 TB cannot be seen and I have to plug t into the usb again before it registers and I can read and write?....It registers at 30 TB of memory all the time.
Great stuff, thank you very much!
okay, now we know the approximate life-span of an ssd. my next question is: assuming i use my ssd for archiving music, videos and pictures, and i've write on it up-to its max tbw. will i be able to still watch the videos or listen to the music? if what they're saying are true, reading the ssd won't cause any wear and tear to the nand, whouldn't it makes ssd become almost perfect storage for archiving? sounds too good to be true?
Archiving is a different issue. Written data does not last indefinitely on flash memory. You'd probably be better with an older drive where the fight for space was not so great and the tolerances not so high but there is degradation over time.
I wonder how well it would work to rewrite the archive once a year or so? Maybe that would extend the life oddly. I'm just guessing now.
Bought a 980pro 2TB late February. It’s already dead smh. I’m hesitant to send it to Samsung because I can’t erase my data on it since it’s stuck on write-protection mode.
Sadly you most likely ran into a common firmware problem. Where your actual physical storage is still totslly fine but your memory controller+firmware thinks your drive is corrupted. Hope you found a dolution in the mean time.
SSDs may have over provisioning and they may also have wear leveling. Not all of them were made to do these things. Every time you read or write data on a SSD you are forever using up some of its VERY short life span. The cost per GB is enormous compared to a HDD. With mechanical hard disk drives you'll get millions of read/writes to it before it starts to exhibit tell tale signs it is about to die. You don't get those warnings from a SSD. Software may show that its health is fine and then the next moment it dies taking all your data and software with it!
The trade-off of using them doesn't make sense to me. Not for main storage. I can get an external 14 TB USB 3.x WD MyBook for about $300. Ain't no way you're going to match that capacity for the same price from any legitimate SSD. Sure they're faster, use less power, run silent, and are impervious to sudden shock and magnetic fields. But their lifespan / reliability is pure shit. Besides it is getting harder and harder to find a laptop that offers HDDs for internal storage. When my Windows 10 laptop stops being supported by MicroSoft it'll likely live out its days as an offline machine. If I can't buy a laptop with a WD HDD inside I'll just stick with tower PCs where I can have HDDs in them. Plus optical disc drives for Blu-Ray DVDs, DVDs, CDs.
Damn. How to say you do little as work possible with out saying you do little as work possible on that machine. 😂 CD/DVD? Yikes... didn't even know those drives were still used...
still got my first ssd still using it , was a 30gb that i got almost 12 years a go .. is a OCZ the company no longer exist got 10ssd still no one has fall ,
My kingston ssd wave 4375 hours on, and 10TB of data written, i still have 84% of life
How long have you owned it? I assume much longer than the 6 months power on time? It’s incredible how little data actually gets written.
@@tdcattech I have for a little more than 2 years, i use in my laptop just for work
Plenty of life left in it then. 👍🏻 Still, that’s quite an on time. Makes sense for a work laptop, I guess.
So what happens when you run out the ssd life? Do you just buy a new ssd and replace it in the laptop? Thanks.
2TB SSD drive about 7 years .. they die with no warning ..
My ADATA SX6000 250GB & SX8200 PRO 1TB. Just live for 2 years normal use in the computer browsing & gaming 6hrs in weekdays & 16hrs in weekdends.
Its always depends on the BRAND! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If SSD has not been used for 10 years, would that be like the HDD, it'll just die?
SSD drives have a finite life but no-one really knows how long. Drives are made to have minimum specs for retention but as for the max, it's really anyone's guess. I know I've had flash storage untouched for at least a few years without any problems. Ten years might be a stretch.
@@tdcattech Agreeable to that. Yeah, it does need energy atleast so it retains energy ( memory ) personal perspective on how devices works, but atleast I heard your thoughts, it's important to me. Thank you!
Some companies claim that you can let their sad unpowered in shelfes for 10+ years eithout your data beeing corrupted, but how they can make that claims i habe no idea.
Nope, Fill your SSD @ 90% Capacity, then use it as a heavy user and also use you SSD as Virtual Memory then Tell me that your 26 Years calculation will become less than a year in reality!
Thanks for reminding a very important also (but missed) information in this video. This is why I no longer recommend 128GB SSDs - they're for people who really know what they're doing (Linux, just-enough, bang-for-buck IT guys), not to be mistook for a budget option. What's the point of going cheap when you have to spend money more often to repair/replace/upgrade the thing....
my experience is 1 year, it was a kingston brand, thats why i never used ssd anymore, meanwhile my hdd did last a decade that i bought 2010...
*Nothing Last Forever 😥*
Very true. These should last long enough though.
I do not trust MacUsers
I use both Mac and Windows (and Linux a few years ago). Does that help. 🤣
painful to watch ..