SSD

Anyone know what the average lifetime of a consumer SSD is, I have a crucial SSD with a 3 year warranty and google hasn't helped?

SSD lifetimes are defined by the total amount of data that is written to them, since each sector can only be written to a few thousand times before it wears out and has to be reallocated. Comparative studies have been done but all SSDs lose capacity as more and more sectors get reallocated.

Edited by micksharpe (Tue 01-Dec-15 18:46:50)

I've had my ssd for over 3 years and it's performance is only slightly diminished from when I first got it simply by using trim and garbage collection.
I think the normal user shouldn't worry about when their ssd is going to wear out as it'll last till your next pc upgrade.

Well the 3 year warranty is certainly longer than the year given on some mechanical drives. Note on upgrades I'm still using a P35 motherboard with an E8400 core duo cpu, I like to upgrade less often.

Make sure that TRIM is enabled in order to get the best performance from your SSD.

It is according to HD sentinel.

I've been using WD drives with a 5-year warranty of late, so far so good...

Ah yes WD black, I still have an external WD still going well out of warranty but you can't beat SSD for performance, my boot times are around 5 secs and program access is pretty quick.

Yes, my present 1TB 5-year old Seagate is starting to develop the odd bad sector. I'll replace with a Samsung EVO Pro SSD for system (younger son uses one and is very happy with it) together with a WD black for data.

Everything on my system is backed up every which way - maybe it's overkill, but rather that than underkill (if that's a valid word)

Picking up on an earlier comment about SSD defrag and Windows 10, I'm running Windows 7 Pro on this system, scheduled defrag is turned off, should I do anything to ensure Windows doesn't try to defrag an SSD?

I have a Corsair 128GB force 3 drive, that is just over 4 years old and is still working. a bit slow by today's standards.

I am looking at getting a Corsair Neutron XT the 240GB one looks good value.