To be used as a primary boot device and games storage drive on a gaming machine, how many years should I expect the drive to last before I consume most of its durability?
To be used as a primary boot device and games storage drive on a gaming machine, how many years should I expect the drive to last before I consume most of its durability?
Without knowing your access patterns and write load, I can still guess you would get more then a decade of normal use before consuming the durability of the drive.
Of course, some instabad fail can and probably will occur before you actually wear the NAND out.
Yeah, the 2281s have RAISE to recover in the event of a die failure, so that helps too.
But some malady will claim it long before you exhaust the flash in all probability. On a long enough timeline, the survival of anything is zero.
Well thats glad to hear, probably in less than 5yrs I might even upgrade to a bigger/faster drive. Is there an application that I can install that tracks my read/write load on the SSD, of course I'll be placing the log file on a mech drive.
I also intend to parition my drive C:/ might be smaller maybe around 40-50Gb while the rest will be for games.. would the smaller c:/ affect the durability of the NAND or it wont matter ?
they are the same as the ocz or any other sandforce drives, the controller is more likely to go before the nand so it is not something that you have to worry about. i would however look to a marvel based drive like a crucial, 510 intel, plextor or ocz vertex4 over a sandforce and they are priced about the same.
i do not know about partitioning but why not just buy the sizes that you want to use, the price is about the same per GB on all of them 256 or under.
u could get a pair of m4 cheaper
http://www.buy.com/prod/crucial-m4-1...221150373.html
Last edited by zanzabar; 05-14-2012 at 01:31 AM.
3770k, M5E, kingston 2x4GB cfr
samsung 2TB F4EG, samsung 840 250GB , CM690II, corsair 750tx
Based on SSDlife Pro, it looks like im writing an average of 4-5Gb per day, Im guessing this should not be an issue even if I write 10Gb/day it would last roughly more than 5yrs correct?
Last edited by Demo; 05-23-2012 at 03:23 AM.
it depends what you are doing the nand will most likely not die though, but if you care alot of about lifespan then the sandforce controller will not be your friend as they seam to die more than the others.Originally Posted by Demo
3770k, M5E, kingston 2x4GB cfr
samsung 2TB F4EG, samsung 840 250GB , CM690II, corsair 750tx
I have two Sandforce based SSDs in my computer. I use my computer mostly for games and benching. They have been in service since December, no issues yet.
Computer: Intel i7-2600k | Asus Z68 Maximus Gene-Z/GEN3 | 240GB Corsair Force 3 GT | 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 | 16GB 30nm Samsung DDR3-1600 | EVGA GTX690 Hydro Copper 4GB | Corsair TX850 | 27" 2560x1440 Overlord Tempest X270OC @ 120Hz
Cooling: EK Supreme HF EN | EVGA Hydro Copper | PrimoChill PrimoFlex PRO LRT | Aquacomputer Airplex mod. 280 rad. w/ integrated pump and reservior | Aquacomputer Airplex mod. 280 rad. | Bitspower Fittings | Ice Dragon Coolant
Case: Custom modded LIAN LI PC-V1020B
Entire drive can live for like 6-7years then Im good with it, Though its likely that I will be upgrading again in less than 4yrs still its a peace of mind knowing that such a device can last long.. Based on SSD life pro though my current drive only has 9yrs left.. lol
Host read @ 288Gb while host write is at 155Gb
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