Will my ssd wareout if i reinstall my os on it again?

[ShiroEerie]

ssd kingston 960gb 2.5

bought it new but had a problem with the pc so i reinstall os or did a clean format cause i cant fix it. will it wareout when installed a couple of times like 3 or more? i used mostly 100-130gb approx. on each format

[Levent]

Wear. 
 

Yes, every write counts.

[DoctorNick]

5 minutes ago, ShiroEerie said:

ssd kingston 960gb 2.5

bought it new but had a problem with the pc so i reinstall os or did a clean format cause i cant fix it. will it wareout when installed a couple of times like 3 or more? i used mostly 100-130gb approx. on each format

If search on the specific model it should be under specifications on kingstons website. Should say something like TBW. example:

[Ripred]

Every write counts but after 3 or 4 times should still be good for a while, once you reinstall download an ssd monitoring software, Kingston might have there own im not sure but itll tell you the drives health and howmany writes it has left

[GuiltySpark_]

To answer your question, yes. 

 

However your real question is reinstalling your OS something you need to worry about doing for the health of your drive? No, absolutely not. 

[flibberdipper]

40 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

To answer your question, yes. 

 

However your real question is this reinstalling your OS something you need to worry about doing for the health of your drive? No, absolutely not. 

Yeah I was a bit paranoid YEARS ago when I got my 120GB 840 EVO at launch (it was new tech to me and I spent all of my money on it so I wanted to preserve it for as long as possible), but now... Fuck man, I couldn't even TELL you how many OS installs my 120GB and especially 250GB 840 EVOs have seen. It has to be in the hundreds by now.

[mariushm]

It's not the writes that cause wear, it's the erases

 

When you format the SSD, the pages that have content are simply marked as "can be erased if needed" and then the new Windows installation is simply written into empty pages.  So reinstalling Windows will practically cause no erases, unless there wasn't free space on the drive in the first place.

 

Once Windows is installed, those 100+ GB are rarely modified, so the wear on the SSD is pretty much minimal, nothing to worry about.

 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

28 minutes ago, mariushm said:

It's not the writes that cause wear, it's the erases

Even if so, and I'm not convinced that is accurate, its a pointless distinction given more writes = more erases.

 

Even if it doesn't need to erase anything for a clean install, that still means those old blocks will probably be erased sooner than if you had never done the reinstall.  Although installing/updating/uninstalling games for most people would be by far what cause the most wear.

 

Either way as previously mentioned, its a pointless thing to worry about as it takes a lot of writes to wear out a drive.  I'd wager most drives fail from other reasons before the NAND wears out.

[kokosnh]

35 minutes ago, mariushm said:

It's not the writes that cause wear, it's the erases

You can’t write to nand without erasing it earlier. So evry write = erase. 

and just writing data to SSD, will induce the internal TRIM, wear leveling, and refresh algorithm, to do more internal write and erase.
 

and both process, writing, and erasing stress the nand memory cell insulation, causing the "wear", just usually not in the same place.

[AI_Must_Di3]

9 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Even if so, and I'm not convinced that is accurate, its a pointless distinction given more writes = more erases.

 

Even if it doesn't need to erase anything for a clean install, that still means those old blocks will probably be erased sooner than if you had never done the reinstall.  Although installing/updating/uninstalling games for most people would be by far what cause the most wear.

 

Either way as previously mentioned, its a pointless thing to worry about as it takes a lot of writes to wear out a drive.  I'd wager most drives fail from other reasons before the NAND wears out.

Great points there, Alex and Flibber! I have a Samsung 830 128GB from when they first dropped that had windows erased, formatted and reinstalled every year for 10 years and its still just keeps goin. I have it in a 2.5" external drive housing and use it like a usb drive, scratch files, for a couple years now. OP, youll be fine. The only issue i could see is it may be a problem if it was some crappy QLC drive.

[FreddyWestside]

Every write causes wear, but you're looking at hundreds or thousands of writes before failure. It's like asking if driving to the grocery store will wear out your tires: it will, but it's such a small portion of the lifespan than you don't need to worry about it.