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To add another example, I'm at about 8TB written ~2 years into owning mine.  I don't know what it's rated for off the top of my head but it's "health" is still at 100%, so...

 

(and that's with the OS installed on it, with a page file, and moving big games on and off,)

I'm building a gaming pc currently, and I was thinking to throw an SSD in as a local drive (C:). But than I watched a video that mentioned that SSD heave a write limit to 1 million or something and that system files are constantly being rewritten. So my question is for people who had SSD for a long time, how much does an SSD really last?

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They are rated for more writes than you'll ever do, and 3rd party tests have shown they last way longer than they are rated for

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unless you're constantly writing over and over nonstop on it or defragging it any good ssd will last you for the life of your build

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5 minutes ago, Spankyy_TPG said:

I'm building a gaming pc currently, and I was thinking to throw an SSD in as a local drive (C:). But than I watched a video that mentioned that SSD heave a write limit to 1 million or something and that system files are constantly being rewritten. So my question is for people who had SSD for a long time, how much does an SSD really last?

Considering that for example my Samsung 850 EVO has 5 years-long warranty, I wouldn't be too concerned about reliability.

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5 minutes ago, Spankyy_TPG said:

I'm building a gaming pc currently, and I was thinking to throw an SSD in as a local drive (C:). But than I watched a video that mentioned that SSD heave a write limit to 1 million or something and that system files are constantly being rewritten. So my question is for people who had SSD for a long time, how much does an SSD really last?

most should do 5+ years for a normal user, unless they're really cheap drives.

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To add another example, I'm at about 8TB written ~2 years into owning mine.  I don't know what it's rated for off the top of my head but it's "health" is still at 100%, so...

 

(and that's with the OS installed on it, with a page file, and moving big games on and off,)

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8 minutes ago, Spankyy_TPG said:

Thanks, your system looks really good for the price, but I would go with a quad core.

Yeah I am going to upgrade it at some point, but  it does fine for what I need right now. By the time I need a quad I'll probably have to update my gpu as well. But since I tend to buy/play a game after they've been out a few years I'm not in a rush.

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as long as you are not using a really shit ssd, they should outlast almost any component in your system :)

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

as @Ryan_Vickers said, you don't use all that many writes on your ssd (he used 8 TB in 2 years and most SSDs can handle much, much more)

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I have an original generation 1 Intel 80GB SSD. Its been used continuously since I bought it for work purposes, I hammer the poor thing with small reads and writes daily. Its at 90% of its life remaining. That is a drive being used in professional work daily. It'll out live me so long as it doesn't fail for some other reason, it'll certainly be obsolete before it fails I suspect. All my other SSDs are 99% life remaining.

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