Writing to SSDs

[louielou]

I heard on a Techquickie video that writing heavily to SSDs can kill them very quickly. What does the term 'writing' in computer form mean? And how much would register as writing heavily to them? On average, I save about 3-5 files a day to my 105GB SSD since February, is that something to worry about? Please help!!

[Godlygamer23]

Writing is defined as putting data on some sort of storage medium(hard drives, SSDs, optical discs, tape, etc). It's the same principle as writing on a piece of paper. You are putting data(perhaps meaningless) on the paper.

[Wauthar]

Lol, with those amounts there's nothing to worry about. I think most SSD's today are rated for fairly heavy use. Of course writing to it is going to kill it, but that's only with insane amounts. 

Have you seen the experiment they did with a bunch of SSD's? I think that the last one to die had a total of around 1 Petabyte written and read to it (?).

 

EDIT: Found the link for the conclusion of the experiment http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

Edited May 12, 2015 by Wauthar

[BoredErica]

Which SSD are we talking about? Any half-recent SSD will last far longer than you need it to. By the time the flash is worn out from writes, the drive is already far too slow ages ago since tech has moved on. Writing means saving new data. If you download a file for example, you are writing to it. But nowadays if you're worried about that, that's like buying an expensive sofa and being too scared to sit on it because you're afraid sitting on it will wear down the sofa and it'll break one day. 

 

You should always have a backup anyways.

[blu4]

I heard on a Techquickie video that writing heavily to SSDs can kill them very quickly. What does the term 'writing' in computer form mean? And how much would register as writing heavily to them? On average, I save about 3-5 files a day to my 105GB SSD since February, is that something to worry about? Please help!!

Dude... The writing you are performing to the SSD is like blowing at it. No stress at all. A recent study that was done on SSDs showed over 2PB of writes until they died.

 

Source: http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/2

[paprikman]

Lol, with those amounts there's nothing to worry about. I think most SSD's today are rated for fairly heavy use. Of course writing to it is going to kill it, but that's only with insane amounts. 

Have you seen the experiment they did with a bunch of SSD's? I think that the last one to die had a total of around 1 Petabyte written and read to it (?).

 

EDIT: Found the link for the conclusion of the experiment http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

Good article, thx.

p.s. that's why I choose corsair's ssds...