SSD's Recommendation

[positivePXL]

I am preparing to purchase a new SSD for my upcoming build. I had chosen an ssd in the 250gb caliber earlier, but when I asked a good friend of mine who works in tech (he was a member of the Silicon Image team that contributed to the HDMI cable/port), he told me that to extend the life of my ssd, I needed a larger capacity ssd so that wear-leveling could have the greatest effect because I had only planned to use it for the OS and my daily drivers. Is there any validity to his recommendation to use an ssd in the 500gb caliber?

[ZeusXI]

5 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

I am preparing to purchase a new SSD for my upcoming build. I had chosen an ssd in the 250gb caliber earlier, but when I asked a good friend of mine who works in tech (he was a member of the Silicon Image team that contributed to the HDMI cable/port), he told me that to extend the life of my ssd, I needed a larger capacity ssd so that wear-leveling could have the greatest effect because I had only planned to use it for the OS and my daily drivers. Is there any validity to his recommendation to use an ssd in the 500gb caliber?

Samsung 850 Pro if you have the money. Im using a 850 Evo which I find pretty good still. some people say they got into 16Petaflops (im not saying consumers) before failed. So im saying, ssd's can take a lot of writes to it before failure. Ive got about 13TB written to mine. Still run as fast as Day 1 and had no failures. 

[Moonzy]

while he is right to some extent

unless you're writing and deleting data from your drive everyday

it doesnt really matter to an average user

since most of us read from the drive often, and write to it less, it's not going to be much of a difference

 

i would suggest getting the best value for your money (most gb per dollar)

and the one you can afford comfortably

[ChrisCross]

8 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

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well theoretically yes. an ssd wears only if you write something to it and if you have more chips there is more to write to. however if your only using it for os and stuff most of the time you will read from it which doesnt wear it at all.

but you should know that ssd wear is really really small. i still got a 1gen sandisk 60gb ssd from like 2010 or so and its still fine. what he is talking about is more a problem in data centers than in regular desktop computers but he has a point. you should also know that by the time your ssd breaks it will be completely irrelevant to the modern standarts because the development in storage technology is fast.

 

if you want some help with the build you can go to the builds and planning section in the forum

[Guest]

Unless you have not a whole lot of RAM and you're using pagefile/swap or we're talking usage for seomething like a database server, I wouldn't worry about modern SSD endurance.

The 75TBW rating on the 250GB 850EVO means the user could be writing 20GB a day to the drive every day for 10 years. And the official ratings are usually sever underestimations.

[positivePXL]

This is all great news, I think I am going to refine my search to the best gb/$ then, save a few extra dollars. Thank you all for the assistance.

[Whotos]

8 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

This is all great news, I think I am going to refine my search to the best gb/$ then, save a few extra dollars. Thank you all for the assistance.

Just don't get the Kingston V300 series as they are have quite a bad reputation for a SSD!

 

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?33754-Kingston-v300-128GB-SSD-Problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/2yfbno/psa_get_an_ssd_just_not_kingston_v300/

[positivePXL]

10 minutes ago, Whotos said:

Just don't get the Kingston V300 series as they are have quite a bad reputation for a SSD!

 

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?33754-Kingston-v300-128GB-SSD-Problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/2yfbno/psa_get_an_ssd_just_not_kingston_v300/

*Checks pcpartpicker list* 

*changes ssd*

[ZeusXI]

34 minutes ago, Svinsparbriivu said:

Unless you have not a whole lot of RAM and you're using pagefile/swap or we're talking usage for seomething like a database server, I wouldn't worry about modern SSD endurance.

The 75TBW rating on the 250GB 850EVO means the user could be writing 20GB a day to the drive every day for 10 years. And the official ratings are usually sever underestimations.

I totally agree with that. When I upgraded my pc, I had to download my games on my SSD, and my ssd raid is more than enough for the games I have. Since then, I check about every so often the GBW to my drives, and honestly it doesnt go up very fast. So dont be worried with the data if your doing day to day stuff with it. even some of the 128GB M.2 have like 100+ TB write before they fail. I only have 40GB to mine as an OS drive from just boots. I dont download a whole lot to my desktop at all so RAMdisk helps with downloading. and then I can install programs to where I want. 

[positivePXL]

PNY CS1311 480gb?

[Mark77]

I wouldn't obsess over the 'wear-out' thing as it still takes many years to even wear out the poorest quality TLC drives on the market.  However, I am a big fan of mature designs for SSDs.  So don't buy the latest/greatest model, but buy last year's, or the year's prior model. 

 

Yes, you won't be getting the latest/greatest in the benchmarks, but at least most of the firmware gremlins will be gone.  And you might score a bit of a discount.

[positivePXL]

16 hours ago, Mark77 said:

Yes, you won't be getting the latest/greatest in the benchmarks, but at least most of the firmware gremlins will be gone.  And you might score a bit of a discount.

Honestly, I am just trying to get a good SSD. I hate that feeling whenever something on my computer tells me I have to restart it, because it still boots off of an HDD.