NVME SSD

I have a Corsair MP510 NVME in my main rig and it is out of warranty but I have backups. It's showing 67% lifetime remaining on SMART. My mate tends to replace SSDs at 50% used and goes for Samsung. I had a dream last night to look for Samsung NVMEs so have been looking.

Do people have a specific lifetime percentage when they replace NVME drives or just run them til they fail?

I never replace any hardware (other than upgrading) until it shows definite signs of impending failure. Result is that, other than upgrades, I rarely replace anything. I'm not a big fan of buying stuff I don't need.

Good point. I've gone for a 2nd hand GTX 1650 to replace my GT 1030 which is running out of driver support for Linux. Urge to buy something quenched.

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Good point. I've gone for a 2nd hand GTX 1650 to replace my GT 1030 which is running out of driver support for Linux. Urge to buy something quenched.

thats not an upgrade of any sorts

Well it is for driver support I can now use the Open Nvidia drivers and 595xx as it is an architecture change, Pascal to Turing. It's just what I need for basic web browsing.

Looks like a big upgrade to me, not only is it generations newer but it also is a higher grade card in the range. It may not be current but it is a significant upgrade.

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Do people have a specific lifetime percentage when they replace NVME drives or just run them til they fail?

Samsung's magician software tells you Terabyte's written (TBW) and remembering that Samsung have different ranges (standard / Pro etc) you can then check the spec for how many TBW you should be looking at before worrying.

But ALWAYS back up your data. Early and often.

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I have a Corsair MP510 NVME in my main rig and it is out of warranty but I have backups. It's showing 67% lifetime remaining on SMART. My mate tends to replace SSDs at 50% used and goes for Samsung. I had a dream last night to look for Samsung NVMEs so have been looking.

Do people have a specific lifetime percentage when they replace NVME drives or just run them til they fail?

What do you do with your drives?

I have a Corsair 512GB NVMe that is 8 years old and still showed over 90% good when i replaced it for a larger drive last year.
I also had a sata Corsair that is over 9 years old, a 120GB that was 13 years old and the wear was still fine on it. It was a firmware issue. that killed it and that drive was used for storing video clips for editing, so moving a lot of data around for around 8 years.

i tend not to replace drives unless they do go belly up, I just make sure I have back ups of documents.

Replacing the storage in my Mac would be more difficult as it is soldered in. Seems to becoming the norm now in a lot of machines, certainty laptops,.

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What do you do with your drives?

i tend not to replace drives unless they do go belly up, I just make sure I have back ups of documents.

I just use them as boot drives which soon uses up the TBW counter. Having said that I have a Crucial MX200 500Gb I use as an archive from 2015 which is still showing 51% and has for years - depends on use.

I've sold the GT 1030 and the GTX 1650 is a Super version which is on its way.

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I just use them as boot drives which soon uses up the TBW counter. Having said that I have a Crucial MX200 500Gb I use as an archive from 2015 which is still showing 51% and has for years - depends on use.

I have a single 1Tb Samsung PRO SSD in my machine and its boot and data. I'm under 15% wear in 5 years. Maybe buy better drives ?

Yes the Pro range have higher TBW but it's still working and my Corsair has 715 TBW lifetime might be an aggressive SMART counter. It also has Samsung Nand chips.

I have two PC's with the OS running on a WD Black SN770 (500GB) and after 3 years of using them everyday they are both still on 98%

For a 7 year old the Corsair isn't doing too bad. Samsung will be my next choice.

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I have a single 1Tb Samsung PRO SSD in my machine and its boot and data. I'm under 15% wear in 5 years. Maybe buy better drives ?

I use corsair drives and never had that problem.
I have a few different ones now, a Crucial P3 NVMe 4TB and a 1tb Maxtor SATA in my Mac dock. I have a 2TB version of the Crucial in my PC and also a old corsair 250GB. All fine.

I also did buy a cheap Integral 1TB to pop into my pi mini nas.,

So GTX 1650 Super is in the PC and working nicely. Also cleaned my Denon amp pots and switches with switch cleaner which has solved the crackling on Volume and source switch.

|I still have a old AMD RX5700, it is getting on, but still works well for what I need. It was made by Sapphire. Before i changed to Mac and was thinking of updating the PC, i did think about getting a newer graphics card,
For what i do with the machine now, the rx5700 is fine. The thought of paying over £200 for a video card me off.
If i updated the board and CPU, the card would be a bit faster anyway as if can use a faster PCIe slot.

But at the moment, got other things on my mind, so spending very little.

The GTX 1650 Super I got has a slight fan rattle at 95% and after 5 minutes under load. Its a Palit variant and is a known problem. Apparently as the GPU heats up the fan blades possibly catch the shroud of the GPU.

Informed the seller and he kindly gave me £10 off refund. Offered full refund for return but will keep as spare or fit in my 2009 PC.

Ordered an Asus Phoenix PH-GTX1650-O4G to try which after some research does not suffer the same problem and has a dual bearing fan. So will give that a test on my main PC.

Grok has helped me stop the rattle! Seems the fan resonates at 95% which is a known problem so Grok has designed a fan speed curve for Gpu Tweak and Lact (Linux) so that the temperature never gets high enough to trigger 95% fan speeds in Furmark (stress testing).

Also limiting the power to 85W instead of 100W keeps temps down/fan speeds down so no noise and it loads at startup.

Have a replacement fan and some bearing oil on the way from China to give the card some more life.

You mean Grok have looked around the net and pinched other peoples designs

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You mean Grok have looked around the net and pinched other peoples designs

Well it's pretty clever to find fan curve designs to suit my situation and stop the bearing rattle.

Get me off ebay. Just bought a Gigabyte GTX 1650 Super Twin as it's supposed to be quieter than a single fan, and the Gigabyte has 3D fan control which stops the fans when under low load.

It just gets info from the net and puts it together. It is clever how it is done as long as the answer is right.

I have not used Ebay for years, my brother do a fair bit.

I just got rid of a load of stuff, I don;t want any more.

I have a load of old memory, DDR and SDR, not sure what to do with them. I would say they are no good for anyone, but some people using old machines may find a use. I also have some old video cards, I mean old, old, AGP and PCI I think. I know there are people who mucks around with retro stuff, so may be useful to someone. Not worth selling.

Been playing with CPU fan curve and Grok today. Nice and quite now and cool on my Gigabyte motherboard.

Its a bit more complex than a store and retrieve; which is why it takes so long to train/lean the models. An LLM transformer model just statistically predicts the next word in the sentence. That is all it is doing, and it turns out when you give it more than the entire works of shakespeare that a computer can convince people it is conscious.

In this case it likely saw thousands of articles in different languages about similar topics of fan wobble, and produced a response that was combination and edited of that learning.

It can often get it wrong; statistics go wrong. In language it ends up with ideas that we laugh at on the news such as glue on pizza.

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Its a bit more complex than a store and retrieve; which is why it takes so long to train/lean the models. An LLM transformer model just statistically predicts the next word in the sentence. That is all it is doing, and it turns out when you give it more than the entire works of shakespeare that a computer can convince people it is conscious.

In this case it likely saw thousands of articles in different languages about similar topics of fan wobble, and produced a response that was combination and edited of that learning.

It can often get it wrong; statistics go wrong. In language it ends up with ideas that we laugh at on the news such as glue on pizza.

It is probably more sophisticated now but I did read that in the early days the AI developers wrote it into the code that the AI engine could not reply with a "sorry, don't know" which was one of the causes of the invented data/facts/reports that has appeared in some AI outputs.

Well Grok is clever enough wanting to fine tune my fan curve based on noise and heat that cant be just searches.

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You mean Grok have looked around the net and pinched other peoples designs

Interesting piece on the BBC News web-site where they report on an American study that posed questions regarding health issues deliberately phrased to test the capabilities of the AI engines. The most accurate (Gemini) gave advice that was regarded as highly problematic to about 15% of the queries. Grok was the worst performing, producing highly problematic answers to 30% of the queries and nearly 60% with highly or somewhat problematic information. Lots of good in AI but it is still a developing technology so should never be used as an information source without further checks.

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Lots of good in AI but it is still a developing technology so should never be used as an information source without further checks.

It appears to be another "flawed gem"; perhaps insanely good in computer software development, but likely not a replacement for the original internet search (Google, Yahoo, DDG).

ChatGPT does have at the bottom of every screen... "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info"; now I would argue it is not in bold enough print!!