SSD performance with compressed files

[SPFINATOR1993]

Hi guys.  Question regarding SSD's.  I have in my computer 4 total SSD's.  Two M.2 250gb samsung 850 evos in RAID 0, and Two 1tb samsung 850 evos, also in RAID 0.  In the drive properties page, the option that is "compress this drive to save space," If I have the files compressed, I know the computer has to decompress the files before they are accessed.  How much slower in performance could I see and does this extra step impact the longevity of the drives?  

My specs for my PC:

Sager np9870-s

6700k and 4.2ghz

8gb gtx 980

32gb hyper x DDR4

I think I hit all the important specs.  If I missed anything, let me know.  Thanks guys!

[scottyseng]

6 hours ago, SPFINATOR1993 said:

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It depends on how fast the CPU is (On a decent PC, it is minor performance loss). As for longevity, I wouldn't bother, it probably wouldn't make a difference (While you save space, you're forcing the OS to decompress a lot of files...that and the compression ratio might be fairly poor). The SSDs will live for a long time unless you're like writing terabytes of data to it every day, which is rare on the consumer side.

[SPFINATOR1993]

Well, it's a 6700k at 4.2ghz, I'm still undecided on what i'm gonna do.  

[scottyseng]

9 hours ago, SPFINATOR1993 said:

Well, it's a 6700k at 4.2ghz, I'm still undecided on what i'm gonna do.  

I would just say to leave it uncompressed. You wouldn't notice a difference / it wouldn't really give you a longer lifespan. That SSD will last years without issue. My old Plextor SSD from 2008 still works fine to this day. My current SSD, the Sandisk Extreme Pro has 26TB of writes to it. Still nowhere near making a dent to the lifespan of it.

 

The more important things would be not to fill up the SSD a lot (Try to keep 25% free space) and ensure TRIM is working properly.

[SPFINATOR1993]

2 hours ago, scottyseng said:

I would just say to leave it uncompressed. You wouldn't notice a difference / it wouldn't really give you a longer lifespan. That SSD will last years without issue. My old Plextor SSD from 2008 still works fine to this day. My current SSD, the Sandisk Extreme Pro has 26TB of writes to it. Still nowhere near making a dent to the lifespan of it.

 

The more important things would be not to fill up the SSD a lot (Try to keep 25% free space) and ensure TRIM is working properly.

Good to know!  I'll keep an eye on that.  Thank you!