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Understand, but that is an extreme usage of SSDs. In normal Joe Smith's systems it should be faster than HDDs and not degrade - at least not that fast.
Understand, but that is an extreme usage of SSDs. In normal Joe Smith's systems it should be faster than HDDs and not degrade - at least not that fast.
Over 3 and close to 4 years of my first SSD, Kingston V300, 120 GB, it was cheapest at that time and still like new despite countless OSs installed and uninstalled and used in all kinds of experiments.
My 2 oldest are from 2008. That makes it 8 years for these OCZ. They never failed.
I had so many crashes but non of them related to SSD My first one was X25-M 80GB and still running without problems
The first SSD I bought was an Intel 510 - 120 GB SSD when I built my system 5 years ago. That SSD started life with Win 7 Ult, upgraded to Win 8.0 then 8.1 and is still running the Win 10 Insider Previews with only 94% Media Wearout with 3.01 TB host writes.
I am using a Corsair Force 3 120gb for this tp build, it has 3.4gb writes, and 2.5gb reads, I am starting to retire this capacity simply because larger ones are so much cheaper now. I have Corsair 120's, Kingston 120's and 240's, Sandisk 240, OCZ 60, Samsung 840 pro 128, 850 pro 256, 850 evo 500, Verbatim 128, none of which show any signs of problems. As for spinners, I have had 4 fail. Of course, none of my ssd's have had a lot of use to wear them out.
I've been using SSD's for 7 years now in my PC and the only problem I had was running 2 corsair performance 256gb(samsung based ssd) in raid-0 deteriated performance after about 9-12 months of use as a OS drive/main storage. I've switched over to a samsung 850 pro 512gb a year and a half ago and haven't had any problems with it. I also have 850 Pros in my PS3/PS4
Ps. for cheap Samsung SSD prices check out jet.com with a 10-20% off first order promo code.