When should i replace a healthy SSD?

[Floppy Kant Fish]

Hi, 

I have in my daily driver Laptop a 240gb OCZ vertex 3. It has about 11,000 operating hours and just under 19 TB of life time writes. The drive is perfectly healthy according to smart. Hearing that ssd's can die rather unexpectedly, when should i replace this ssd?

 

I would prefer not to have any down time on my daily use laptop. Its much faster just to clone an ssd than to download off the home server remotely, Im at uni.

[spartaman64]

if it says the drive is healthy then its probably fine. they did testing of ssds into petabytes if data

[Floppy Kant Fish]

if it says the drive is healthy then its probably fine. they did testing of ssds into petabytes if data

 

okay, I was looking at the performance of those ram cached samsung drives. Basically I was looking for a reason to drop the $200 something on it with the capacity i want.

[CM7]

It Looks like you have some time. Most SSD are pretty reliable and don't die that often. I would wait for a sale and buy a backup SSD if you are really concerned about it.

[dadasmithywinkle]

okay, I was looking at the performance of those ram cached samsung drives. Basically I was looking for a reason to drop the $200 something on it with the capacity i want.

Then drop the $200 in the drive you want SSD's are nearly as good as HDD's in day to day taskes these days.

[spartaman64]

okay, I was looking at the performance of those ram cached samsung drives. Basically I was looking for a reason to drop the $200 something on it with the capacity i want.

if you want to buy a faster higher capacity ssd go ahead

[spartaman64]

Then drop the $200 in the drive you want SSD's are nearly as good as HDD's in day to day taskes these days.

nearly as good? is that a joke because they are faster and better in just about every way

[Alibaladin]

Hi, 

I have in my daily driver Laptop a 240gb OCZ vertex 3. It has about 11,000 operating hours and just under 19 TB of life time writes. The drive is perfectly healthy according to smart. Hearing that ssd's can die rather unexpectedly, when should i replace this ssd?

 

I would prefer not to have any down time on my daily use laptop. Its much faster just to clone an ssd than to download off the home server remotely, Im at uni.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/ocz-vertex-3-240gb-review,3.html

[Alibaladin]

okay, I was looking at the performance of those ram cached samsung drives. Basically I was looking for a reason to drop the $200 something on it with the capacity i want.

If your mobo got M2 then use it for OS/programs. In future can just buy HDD for storage. $$$

[dadasmithywinkle]

nearly as good? is that a joke because they are faster and better in just about every way

I was regarding reliabilty and longevity, his main concern

[spartaman64]

I was regarding reliabilty and longevity, his main concern

? i thought ssds are more reliable and durable than hard drives

[dadasmithywinkle]

? i thought ssds are more reliable and durable than hard drives

Durable as drop wise, yes. Reliability and durability, data wise, is why HDD's are used it servers and not SSD's (along with cost). 

[spartaman64]

Durable as drop wise, yes. Reliability and durability, data wise, is why HDD's are used it servers and not SSD's (along with cost). 

i think its mainly because of the cost and they get enterprise grade hard drives not consumer 

[STRMfrmXMN]

Hi, 

I have in my daily driver Laptop a 240gb OCZ vertex 3. It has about 11,000 operating hours and just under 19 TB of life time writes. The drive is perfectly healthy according to smart. Hearing that ssd's can die rather unexpectedly, when should i replace this ssd?

 

I would prefer not to have any down time on my daily use laptop. Its much faster just to clone an ssd than to download off the home server remotely, Im at uni.

Well I had a 5 year old Samsung 64GB die on me after a pretty medium amount of use. Keep in mind that SSDs are much more forgiving nowadays and last forever. Apparently my Sandisk Ultra Plus can do about 170TiBW before giving in and miscalculating. My OCZ Arc 100 is rated for 3GB of writes per day for 3 years I believe before it would not perform as factory par. They do last awhile.