SSD for music

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Chimay

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Just looking for some opinions. I primarily use my personal laptop to listen to podcasts & music at work and do some homework during downtime. Would the constant streaming of music for 8-10 hours a day accelerate the death of a modern SSD drive?
 
Nope. Even under heavily abusive use patterns, you're not going to kill a modern SSD from over-use until it's several years old. Streaming music is a fairly light workload - a few hundred MB to a few GB of data at most.
 
Would the constant streaming of music for 8-10 hours a day accelerate the death of a modern SSD drive?
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No. Remember the writes / erase cycles are what causes the wear. From my experience you should expect your SSD to last longer than the 5 years you can expect from a hard drive although like a hard drive an SSD can die at any time from before it arrives to you to its expected lifetime. But unlike a hard drive you usually can not easily recover your data from a dieing SSD and you probably will not get an indication of failure with SSDs since most failures seem to be controller or firmware related and not the NAND.
 
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normal use off ssd likely expand beyond 20 years.

I use usb key for my music.
 
Sweet thanks everyone for the info! I wasn't sure if reads causes wear as well.
 
drescherjm said:
But unlike a hard drive you usually can not easily recover your data from a dieing SSD and you probably will not get an indication of failure with SSDs since most failures seem to be controller or firmware related and not the NAND.
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I accidentally deleted some temp files that I needed at the time from one of my scratch SSDs the other day. I have recycle bins globally disabled as I find it more of hassle. Within 2 minutes I ran a scan with GetDataBack and the file names were still there but the data was already gone. 0 Bits, zero nada.

SSDs are awesome for everything, but definitely immensely more confident with HDDs for backups. :D
 
I accidentally deleted some temp files that I needed at the time from one of my scratch SSDs the other day. I have recycle bins globally disabled as I find it more of hassle. Within 2 minutes I ran a scan with GetDataBack and the file names were still there but the data was already gone. 0 Bits, zero nada.
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I expect this was the result of TRIM working.
 
Yeah definitely, it's good to know it's being put to good use. :cool:
 
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