SSD durability question

[nickbg321]

Hello,

 

I'm planning to get a 240GB Kingston V300 SSD for my notebook but I have some concerns regarding its durability. The notebook only has space for one drive and there are no M.2 or mSata sockets, so I have to replace the HDD.

 

My question is how long will an SSD last, if treated like a regular hard drive (not just used as a boot drive), will it die fast and is it a good idea?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Juganog]

It should be fine, SSD's do have limited amounts of time that they can be written to but unless you are dumping gigs and gigs of random files each day onto it then removing those files and writing new ones on it should last a very long time
 

 

Intel SSD's have a 5 year warranty and most others have 3 year warranties 

[RoboRaccoon]

Yeah it should be fine. I can't remember exactly but Intel's SSD's are rated for something like 40-50 Gb per day over the warranty period. I assume the other manufacturers are in a similar ballpark?

 

But yes, compared to HDD's they do have less write cycles before the media starts to wear out. However, I feel safer with SSD's in laptop because you'd be moving the thing around and the mechanical HDD is susceptible to bumps. My friend had his laptop in a bag and he accidentally bumped it against a table and he lost all his data on the HDD!  

[hojnikb]

Avoid v300, its garbage.

Get something from crucial or adata.

[nickbg321]

What about the Samsung 840 EVO? I've read good reviews about this drive but when compared to the V300 is the difference big enough to justify the higher price tag?

[hojnikb]

What about the Samsung 840 EVO? I've read good reviews about this drive but when compared to the V300 is the difference big enough to justify the higher price tag?

No no no, EVO has issues.

Get mx100, sp610 or sp920

[Guest]

No no no, EVO has issues.

Get mx100, sp610 or sp920

What are you talking about? The evo has no more issues than any of the ones you listed. 

 

Avoid v300, its garbage.

Get something from crucial or adata.

ITs not garbage its a budget ssd....

[Guest]

Hello,

 

I'm planning to get a 240GB Kingston V300 SSD for my notebook but I have some concerns regarding its durability. The notebook only has space for one drive and there are no M.2 or mSata sockets, so I have to replace the HDD.

 

My question is how long will an SSD last, if treated like a regular hard drive (not just used as a boot drive), will it die fast and is it a good idea?

 

Thanks in advance!

Yes it will be fine. Personally I would save up for something a little better but the kingston should still be fine.

[hojnikb]

What are you talking about? The evo has no more issues than any of the ones you listed. 

 

ITs not garbage its a budget ssd....

 

Yes it has. No ssd available today apart from EVO has such issues http://www.anandtech.com/show/8550/samsung-acknowledges-the-ssd-840-evo-read-performance-bug-fix-is-on-the-way

 

And yea.V300 IS garbage. Flawed controller, silently switched nand (so now you cant even reach 200MB/s sequential). All that for a few bucks saved ? i think not.

[ArcticWhitefur]

Due to the high Write speeds of an SSD I would love to use one to record higher quality footage, however that is also my biggest concern is durability. Writing up to 300GB of data in a session possibly 2 or 3 times a week concerns me when thinking about doing it to a SSD. Only alternative would be RAID HDD simply for the Write speed required for 2.5K at the quality I would like.

 

But to answer your question if using it as a laptop / notebooks main drive. If all your doing is web browsing watching youtube or Netflix/hulu and doing office files work then a SSD should have no issues in terms of durability really.

[nickbg321]

I think I'm going to spend a few bucks more and go for the ADATA SP920. Are there better solutions in this price range?

[hojnikb]

Due to the high Write speeds of an SSD I would love to use one to record higher quality footage, however that is also my biggest concern is durability. Writing up to 300GB of data in a session possibly 2 or 3 times a week concerns me when thinking about doing it to a SSD. Only alternative would be RAID HDD simply for the Write speed required for 2.5K at the quality I would like.

 

But to answer your question if using it as a laptop / notebooks main drive. If all your doing is web browsing watching youtube or Netflix/hulu and doing office files work then a SSD should have no issues in terms of durability really.

 

You'd be fine with SSD. MLC ssds 256GB and up can take 500-700TB, before they start to show any signs of wear.

 

So if you're doing 1TB per week, the drive will still last you for the next 10 years or more.