SSD LIFESPAN

[claydog1993]

hey guys i got a laptop from best buy and it was a display model. and it is taking forever to install any program. it took it almost 12hrs to install microsoft office. so im wondering if the hard drive is bad from being on for how ever long it was on display.

the laptop is a hp omen 15 with the 250gb pci ssd (sandisk sd6pp4m-256g-1006)

[ReesZRB]

hey guys i got a laptop from best buy and it was a display model. and it is taking forever to install any program. it took it almost 12hrs to install microsoft office. so im wondering if the hard drive is bad from being on for how ever long it was on display.

the laptop is a hp omen 15 with the 250gb pci ssd (sandisk sd6pp4m-256g-1006)

Format it. If it is still slow then return it. SSD's lifespan is around 1-4PetaBytes of constant read and write. It should died that quick

[vanished]

Could be.  Check it with crystal disk info

 

However, could the slow install just be downloading office slowly?

[Badazzz]

Yeah check crystal disk and also I would have an HDD as my boot drive for reliability.

[Praesi]

SSD for System driver is awesome. I use it as gamedrive as well.

12h is way too long. The live of a SSD in a normal PC is several Years.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Yeah check crystal disk and also I would have an HDD as my boot drive for reliability.

 

Why?  HDDs are much slower, more sensitive (great risk of damage if you drop the laptop, for instance) and generally LESS reliable than SSDs. 

The only thing they have going for them is the fact that recovery firms often can still recover the data after they died.  At great expense, of course. 

[Badazzz]

Why?  HDDs are much slower, more sensitive (great risk of damage if you drop the laptop, for instance) and generally LESS reliable than SSDs. 

The only thing they have going for them is the fact that recovery firms often can still recover the data after they died.  At great expense, of course. 

 

SSDs die from writing too much data, HDDs die from physical damage. You pick your poison. Personally, I just don't go around dropping laptops like a retard, so I would have an HDD as a boot drive and an SSD as a second drive.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

The worst 250GB SSD in Techreport's endurance test wrote in excess of 700TB before it failed.  If you write 100GB per day to your SSD (which is an insane amount really), that's still 7.000 days or 19 years. 

The Samsung 840PRO in that test managed 2.4PB, which at that same 100GB/day translates to 65+ years. 

 

No normal person will ever wear out a modern SSD.  Endurance was an issue with the very first SSDs, but those times are long gone.