No one is affected by this and everyone is. Your storage will eventually fail, regardless of what it is. This is just a new finding to keep in mind and it really doesn’t mean anything for the average consumer, unless you store your shit cryogenically or something.
Make sure you defragment your SSD on a daily basis to stretch its lifespan. :trollface:
HDDs are pretty durable and reliable in their own right, and you have to do a LOT more than merely “bump” them. I’ve seen several tests where Laptops were strapped to these devices that shook them around faster and faster as time went, to show the benfits of SSD.
In every test, the HDD-equipped laptops didn’t start having transfer issues and finally crap out, until the laptop was being shaken so fast it looked blurry. Obviously users won’t be grabbing their laptops and shaking them furiously like they’re Superman, so i think HDD is no slouch when it comes to reliableity.
SSD Prices used to be pretty outlandish but, they have come down quite nicely. My 128GB Sandisk was only $55. It wasn’t that long ago that a decent brand, 128GB SSD, ran ya something like $200. So if price was an issue before, then now is the time to jump in and test the waters.
Now SSD technology just needs to mature to a point where they’ll actually LAST, and not randomly self-destruct after a couple of years. Only then will they truely be worthy of replacing HDD.
Shock protection in mobile HDDs has come a LONG way. That shit’s pretty awesome.
I just bought a new high end laptop that I wanted to last for at least 6 years… the whole thing is SSD only. Was pretty expensive but I was willing to pay for the durability (thinkpad).
Am I screwed?
You have a warranty right? Also, this is data loss, which has nothing to do with the rest of your laptop. If you make backups, you should be able to replace your drive whenever you want without losing anything. If you make backups.
If. You make backups.
I know some ghetto ass people that live in some shitty apartments with no AC, playing WoW religiously still, who put all their money into a really good PC, with an SSD. People like that, will see their SSD fail in 2 years or less. That’s a little scary, for something designed to hold your OS.
ooc, why don’t you install any of your startup programs on your SSD? That’s kinda the point of them. Windows don’t boot up super fast, when it still has to load startup programs from HDD.
If you were to store your data inside a notebook instead of these fancy nancy SSD doodads, you wouldn’t have to worry about the temperature.
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On my PC I have:
250GB SSD with OS and most played games
3TB drive for storage
1TB drive for user data for OS on SSD (My documents, pictures,etc)
3TB drive for programs and games not on SSD.
Then I have a NAS with 2x 4TB red drives. One has backup documents, downloads, pictures, programs etc. The other is my network stored media collection which I keep a copy of on my 3TB storage drive. Plus any documents and most of my code is backed up online between GIT, Google Drive, and DropBox.
With games approaching 50gb for raw install, then several GB patches, DLC, etc, it’s hard to put a game on an SSD, in my opinion.
lol i have how they ninja edit out the ‘military grade’ stats
I got a corsair SSD a few months ago. I only have the OS and MS office on it though. I keep my important stuff on the other three internal HDDs I have.
…u paid money for MS Office?
I have a one year warranty. Replacing the SSD should be pretty expensive in itself, right? Come on… you telling me this thing is gonna need replacing of parts in 2 years? My old HDD laptop I used for 7+ years had no problems with data storage.
Isn’t there any way I can extend my SSD life by “taking good care” of it? I read before if you don’t fill up the storage to the max then the unused storage won’t die.
Endurance tests show even the cheaper SSD’s can do like 700TB of writes, so techincally they should last 20 years of normal use, or until something else fails on it lol.
I’ve had an SSD for around 5 years now and that PC is on 24/7 and always doing something and I don’t shut any disc off and it’s still alive and fine.
I just got a SSD for Caching. Worse Case scenario it dies and I only lose cloned data.
I only use my SSD for the OS and nothing more. So I’m good.
No. I acquire it from a friend.