SSDs Have they become dependable?

[Getback]

I'm just curious. I know originally they had a fairly high failure so I heard.

[mechanic]

I've been using a Samsung ssd for nearly a year with no drama, touch wood

[Gman]

If you're using if for AH, SKuzzy has posted some stuff here and there about their reliability being possibly degraded due to the large number of small writes and at whatnot associated with the game/drive interfacing with each other.

Your mileage may vary, a number of members have posted that they left AH on their SSD despite this warning, and they'll still -so far- working.  I myself had the game on an SSD for over a year prior to hearing about this, so I promptly moved AH to my D spinner drive.

Otherwise, as the previous poster said, I've had them for several years now and no failures or issues.  Samsung 830 is my 120 gb drive, and my 240ish one is an 840.   There are tons of reputable makers out there now, I wouldn't be all that afraid of one failing.  Next build I'm going to get a 500 gb one, or larger, to try running my entire Steam folder onboard, just to see wth happens with that.

As fast as they are, all they really do in my world is let me boot up faster, and load a couple of games a bit more quickly.  Really, it's the boot time and the speed the OS operates off the drive is the only difference I see, again, in the world I use PC's in.

[Chalenge]

I use SSDs on my servers. I do not use them on my graphics workstation, or gaming computers, but I think if I used one like I do on the servers and installed all programs off-drive that it would possibly be great. The way I see it Windows is just not, by default, well designed for something like SSDs. You might be able to manage the OS to bring it into line with the SSD design. In my mind a server does not see a lot of variation in setup in the user folder for instance, at least not the way I use one. If you know anything about video editing, for instance, you know that by default the media cache folder for Premiere is stored in the user area. That one area can see monumental changes over just short periods of time, unless you move it. Knowing that you can move the cache, but there may be many more programs that act in the same manner that you never notice. As I understand SSDs that is something that shortens the lifespan of the SSD, and researching how to fix the potential problems is something I do not need right now.

One thing I have considered is doing a fresh limited install of Windows 7 and migrating it to an SSD. Since I have AH on a satellite drive it could be just an add-in drive and go. The Crucial MX-100 is only $110 right now for 256 GB, which would be fine for an AH only OS.

By the way a restore from a True Image Disk Mode backup aligns perfectly to an SSD.

[guncrasher]

I bought a 250g ssd samsung evo to prove ripley wrong about longevity.  so far he's winning.  but I still have 9 years left .

so far no problems I use it for wot and aces high.  i save my films but move them to my date hd.  I did a fresh install on the ssd.  I figure I would start new.  so far it has been great but other than the windows load time I see no difference.  then again my computer was pretty fast to begin with.

but to be honest I think it's worth the 150 bucks i paid for it


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[MrRiplEy[H]]

I'm just curious. I know originally they had a fairly high failure so I heard.

The high failure rate has been an urban myth mostly. They've been dependable for years. We're running our databases on SSDs in our servers 24/7. In fact statistics show that SSDs are on average much more reliable than the traditional disk based drives.

[save]

on my 3rd year with my intel 510 ( with OS on it)
I have no cache , and have disabled restore points.

once every week I do a norton ghost backup to a USB on OS drive.
I use trim program every two weeks or so.

[Drane]

Been running an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD on my gaming computer since 2010.

It is the boot drive with windows and system related programs as well as Aces High installed on it.

All other applications (like Steam games and Office 2007) are installed on a 1TB SATA HD.

I am very pleased with performance.

[Getback]

Thanks everyone! I still have no idea if I want to purchase one but may be a bit closer. I would use it as my game and OS drive and then use a spinner for backups.

I saw where my system was rated as 5.9, the lowest common denominator being the hard drive at 5.9. So I thought a faster drive might be good.