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What are your findings with SSDs ?
Everytime my harddisk is slow/taxed I kinda wish and wondering about SSDs... how much would I really like it ?!
What I would HATE is losing all my data caused the SSD went dead or broken or corrupted. So for this I ask you and I am wondering: What are your practical findings with SSDs ? How reliable did you find them in case you used them ? How long have you been using SSDs ? Did any break ? Get lost ? Damaged ? Static Discharge ? Overheated ? Corrupted ? Any other issues ? The biggest pain seems to be the small size, running out of disk space on C/system drive and big COSTS/price. But let's assume size is going to increase in the future and price is coming down... what then ? Harddisk reliability/safety vs SSDs reliability/safety. Which technology do you trust the most for keeping your data safe ? Bye, Skybuck. |
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:22:48 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: Five years, I suppose, on my oldest 64G Samsung. The two unitsadditionally are also older than not, relative to newer TLC standards. - The quick and dirty of it is that TBW Terabytes Written is what the drive manufacturers produce at some balance to a yearly warranty period, which can range from 1 to 5 years. For some that can be like a car batter or tires "pro-rating". Say you send in your deceased SSD: the manufacturer may then turn around, run diagnostics, and inform you you're out of luck because you've exceeded the TBW rating of their drive: TBW ratings can run from anywhere to 75 to 400 terabytes written before the drive goes brain dead. Which tends to be exasperating to many people looking to get into all the great and good things going on with this new generation of SSDs. Where the "rub" comes into play is at the industry trade shows. There are many, many lesser SSD brand names poised at discounts of as low as $50/US for a 256G SSD unit;- sub-$30/US units also occasionally happen. They're going south, price wise and fast, into flashstick memory territorial pricing. Yet there aren't nearly so many brands actually capable of producing the type of memory, NAND variants, comprising these low-priced modern wonders. That sub-$30, off-brand SSD is what is going into a likes of less expensive production laptops. It's also highly likely to be at the low extreme of TBW ratings, effectively without a warranty. Trade show representation informally gives such drives one year operational leeway. On the other hand, Samsung and near 400 TBW ratings for TLC NAND is what is driving the force behind the "low-cost alternative" to former MLC drives, and why everybody and their mule wants one now-a-days. |
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Mike wrote:
Win 10 was the driving force.Â* We're gonna have to switch eventually...now seemed to be the right time. Yes, I've been practicing with Linux Mint for when that time comes... |
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On 10/11/2018 1:42 PM, Bill wrote:
Mike wrote: Win 10 was the driving force.Â* We're gonna have to switch eventually...now seemed to be the right time. Yes, I've been practicing with Linux Mint for when that time comes... I admire your persistence. I've tried many times, but keep running into deal breakers. I just can't subscribe to, "if it ain't supported, you don't need it" and "all you gotta do is completely change the way you do stuff" and "If you're too stupid to learn C, stick with your decades of visual basic programs." |
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Paul wrote:
wrote: Everytime my harddisk is slow/taxed I kinda wish and wondering about SSDs... how much would I really like it ?! What I would HATE is losing all my data caused the SSD went dead or broken or corrupted. So for this I ask you and I am wondering: What are your practical findings with SSDs ? How reliable did you find them in case you used them ? How long have you been using SSDs ? Did any break ? Get lost ? Damaged ? Static Discharge ? Overheated ? Corrupted ? Any other issues ? The biggest pain seems to be the small size, running out of disk space on C/system drive and big COSTS/price. But let's assume size is going to increase in the future and price is coming down... what then ? Harddisk reliability/safety vs SSDs reliability/safety. Which technology do you trust the most for keeping your data safe ? Bye, Skybuck. They're a rich mans toy :-) I tested my 500GB hard drive and my 256GB SSD on boot times. Neither is all that impressive, when Tomshardware says they managed to boot Windows 10 in around 5 seconds (with Fast Boot enabled). I don't have Fast Boot enabled. My kernel boots fresh each time and is not refrigerated. SSD 49 seconds (17763.55) HDD 149 seconds (17134.xxx) 152 seconds (17763.55) Booting is miserably slow no matter what. My dual boot Insider Edition takes even longer than the HDD result (as it's on a HDD too). The only thing slower than that, is booting the Gentoo demo DVD with a couple hundred drivers on it :-) That takes about three minutes. And working with the HDD today, reminds me it is a pretty miserable experience. Going back to Windows 7 is the answer :-/ It takes about 59 seconds for the desktop to appear, and around the 85 second mark before it's ready for input from the user. HDD 59 seconds (7601.17514 , Win7 SP1) Paul |
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:19:41 -0400, Paul
wrote: I tested my 500GB hard drive and my 256GB SSD on boot times. Neither is all that impressive, when Tomshardware says - Most of my programs are portable and not too extensively tied into the OS, for those that invariably need be linked mostly for small saved preference file links. Hence, they're collectively kept, easily apart on another partition. A shift is also then possible for not only a faster boot, but regularly rewriting the OS from streaming binary back-up. With a 800G OS image, for instance, it's possible to achieve that rewrite in 45 seconds. Pretty much in keeping with boot times experienced, that they're near half a time for having to work off platters. I do it from early or pre-Symantec Norton Ghost Enterprise, so it's basic DOS command prompt stuff at native chipset thruput. It doesn't matter if I go with a binary stream SSD SSD, I'll get the same speeds as HDD SSD. What I do get by adding a SSD , though, is twice the speed of either HDD0 HDD1, or, potential worse, same HDD image across to same. I don't notice so much boot times. They're fast enough. I do, though, notice while digging around in the OS, trying to keep it lean for fast high-compression image rewrites. Hammering ... testing for hard and software stability, repeatedly rebooting over failed attempts, to eventually gain a solution, becomes increasingly an imposition without reasonably fast image rewrites SSDs offer. I hardly even notice anomalies and just leave it online. Anomalies on occasion to surface, although I don't even bother to think twice: 99.9% of the time a rewrite has the desired effect on anything unusual. It's as much a matter of course, every few days, a week in passing at most before I rewrite. I've been streaming religiously since W95, when I bought a piece of crap BioStar MB specifically for an added free Norton Ghost incentive, so SSDs were the immediately welcome hit on an impact over time saved in that aspect. |
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