SSD

[MTXR]

Sorry, i know this is disk storage, but it seems where all the storage people hang out at...

How reliable are SSDs for notebook drives? I am worried about the wear and tear of writing and rewriting to the disk. Should i be concerned if i am using it like a normal notebook drive?

 

[XS Janus]

Don't worry about it.
Good ones have rating of many, many years of writes in its lifetime.

 

[Kaldskryke]

You'd have to be writing to the disk for years on end to wear out most SSDs. For a regular computer user, SSD life can be considered to be infinite. Flash deterioration is only a consideration if you're building a data server that will be used all the time, but for us consumers it's a moot point.

 

[Waldorf]

Like everyone else has said, you're worrying about outdated information. Vendors wouldn't be selling these things into the enterprise if they were as bad as everyone tries to make them out to be.

I will say, however, that I did have my first problem with my Mtron drive. I had an Oblivion mod installed as an OMOD (essentially a ZIP file). I had unzipped it and been playing with the mod for a while. I uninstalled the mod, and later tried to unzip it and install it again. It failed to unzip every time after the first time. I had to delete the mod from disk and copy it from my backups. Once I did that, it worked again.

The problem with SSDs is that when something like this happens, you really can't pin it down to a sector or cluster due to the wear leveling algorithms on the drives. Sure I got around the problem, but what happens the next time I try to write to that same memory location? There is no way to know if the drive has marked that area as bad, or if it will try to use that address in the future.

Thinking back on it, I should have just left that file alone, renamed it, and copied the new file to another location on the disk. That way, I could guarantee that I'll never hit the spot again. Until of course, I reimage the drive or format it.

 

[MTXR]

Thanks for the responses everyone.