SSD Write Cycles?

[Made In Canada]

I was just on the Internet and as i was looking into more about stuff on SSD's, i read something about write cycles and how there is a finite of them. My question is, what is a write cycle? Before you say "look it up" please understand that i have, however, i dont really understand how it was explained so if someone could explain it for someone newer to this, that would be greatly appreciated.

[Godlygamer23]

A write cycle is literally when the drive writes to the memory, whatever that is(platters, NAND flash, etc). It's also when data is removed from a drive.

[Flowey]

2 minutes ago, Made In Canada said:

I was just on the Internet and as i was looking into more about stuff on SSD's, i read something about write cycles and how there is a finite of them. My question is, what is a write cycle?

To be honest for a consumer grade SSD you don't even need to car about that, even if you were to ran a SSD constantly rewriting data it would still outlast pretty much any HDD you can think of. Other then server anti-vibration grade HDDs of course.

[Made In Canada]

4 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

A write cycle is literally when the drive writes to the memory, whatever that is(platters, NAND flash, etc). It's also when data is removed from a drive.

Thank You for the fast and to the point answer

how often would this be and how could i expand the longevity of my SSD?

 

(just so you know where i stand on it, i basically am installing mods on Skyrim and was told that i should install it all on my SSD which has about 100GB left on it, but i was wondering if it would be better to put the game and mods on my HDD instead).

Edited March 27, 2016 by Made In Canada

[Made In Canada]

1 minute ago, Flowey said:

To be honest for a consumer grade SSD you don't even need to car about that, even if you were to ran a SSD constantly rewriting data it would still outlast pretty much any HDD you can think of. Other then server anti-vibration grade HDDs of course.

Oh, well in that case, Thank You.

[Flowey]

Just now, Made In Canada said:

Oh, well in that case, Thank You.

Np bud

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Made In Canada said:

how often would this be and how could i expand the longevity of my SSD?

 

(just so you know where i stand on it, i basically am installing mods on Skyrim and was told that i should install it all on my SSD which has about 100GB left on it, but i was wondering if it would be better to put the game and mods on my HDD instead).

The SSD is likely to last a long time. I've written so much data to my SSD and yet it's still at 100%. I have literally written ~28TB to my drive. I wouldn't sit here worrying about if the drive is going to be fine or not - it's likely to be fine with the mods installed on there.

[Flowey]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

The SSD is likely to last a long time. I've written so much data to my SSD and yet it's still at 100%. I have literally written ~28TB to my drive. I wouldn't sit here worrying about if the drive is going to be fine or not - it's likely to be fine with the mods installed on there.

What do you think of Skyrim save files tho? Like I remeber in the PS3 days a single save could go to 12mb in size. The number of saves Skyrim make could quickly get out of hand really.

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Flowey said:

What do you think of Skyrim save files tho? Like I remeber in the PS3 days a single save could go to 12mb in size. The number of saves Skyrim make could quickly get out of hand really.

I had Skyrim for a while stored on my SSD, along with the saves, so I know how crazy they can get. But it didn't stop me from putting them on my SSD.

[Made In Canada]

2 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I had Skyrim for a while stored on my SSD, along with the saves, so I know how crazy they can get. But it didn't stop me from putting them on my SSD.

 

3 minutes ago, Flowey said:

What do you think of Skyrim save files tho? Like I remeber in the PS3 days a single save could go to 12mb in size. The number of saves Skyrim make could quickly get out of hand really.

do you think 100GB can hold Skyrim, and its 150ish+ mods? (the only way i could test for sure is to install them all on my HDD and then see from there, and if i could work, then re-due all of it on my SSD.

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Made In Canada said:

do you think 100GB can hold Skyrim, and its 150ish+ mods? (the only way i could test for sure is to install them all on my HDD and then see from there, and if i could work, then re-due all of it on my SSD.

You'd have to calculate it as it depends on the mods.

[Made In Canada]

3 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

You'd have to calculate it as it depends on the mods.

alright, honest answer. Thanks.