Posted: 12/26/2009 10:30:09 PM EDT
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Looking at possibly picking up an SSD to use as OS drive on a new i7 build I'm doing.
Wondering who all is using them, and specifically for how long you've been using them.... Few months back I read some articles on SSDs and it seemed like the biggest issue was that continuous reads/writes deteriorated the media over time. Wondering about the long-term reliability of such a device, especially if used for swap space, large Outlook PST files, etc., and other types of use that read/write constantly. Esp on a machine that stays on 24/7. Comments? Thanks. |
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I put one in my machine when I did a clean Win7 install a couple weeks ago. It's screaming fast. SSD's TRIM command is supposed to improve long-term performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM |
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I put one in my machine when I did a clean Win7 install a couple weeks ago. It's screaming fast. SSD's TRIM command is supposed to improve long-term performance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM Flash cells tolerate only a limited number of writes before they fail
Hmm. Not sure I want to drop $300 on an Intel SSD that will die in a year or so. |
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Quoted: Flash cells tolerate only a limited number of writes before they fail Hmm. Not sure I want to drop $300 on an Intel SSD that will die in a year or so. Hence TRIM and wear levelling. I only use mine (80GB) as the system drive and a few applications. Everything else is on a larger 1TB drive and it leaves me plenty of space to image the system drive just-in-case. Supposed to be 1.2 million hours MTBF on my Intel SSD. Only time will tell if that plays out. |
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Intel SSDs have a three year warranty - the same as most standard mechanical drives. I have an 80Gb SSD in my laptop that benchmarks faster than the pair of 500Gb mirrored drives in my workstation. As soon as the 256Gb SSDs drop a bit in price the twin 500's are gone! |
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Tucansam:
I have a second generation Intel 80 GB SSD I want to sell, let me know if you're interested. Like DVDtracker said, it's fast on Win 7. I'm selling it because I can really use the money elsewhere. I was before/am running with a RAID 0 setup and that's pretty fast too - but definitely not as fast as the SSD. But I got two issues now: the price tag, and I've run out of SATA ports. 
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