Just because you are not having a problem today, does not mean there will not be a problem tomorrow. Again, it really is in the best interests of your hardware when I say it is not a good idea to run the Beta on an SSD, but it is your hardware.
What Skuzzy is saying is right, the Beta is going to be doing a lot more writes to a SSD than AHII ever did which is going to increase the
potential for a SSD to fail. Skuzzy didn't say when it was going to fail or even if it is going to fail while the Beta is running.....or not to use a SSD to run AHII or the Beta on it for that matter....he is not speaking to us geeks who frequent this BBS and should have some knowledge of the risks and have accepted these risks. He is speaking to those who are reading all our posts who may not know of or even understand all the technological background and the risks involved w\ the use of a SSD but are reading our posts that do seem to "refute" these tested and PROVEN risks of using an SSD and more importantly, read to imply that what Skuzzy is saying is not true.
Make no mistake, the latest SSD rewrite testing has shown 2 truths, #1 truth is that SSD quality has gotten much, much better, modern OS's have coded in native TRIM support among other things and SSD firmware has gotten better at garbage collection and NAND sector provisioning to make what MADe has been doing a more transparent user operation (meaning less user input to do the same things that MADe does, outside of the OS installs and SSD RAID array maintenance but there are now RAID SSD's built to interface thru a single SSD controller on a single SSD platform that TRIM can work on now if you are willing to pay for it, the price\performance side) and the use of SSD caching software to reduce the amount of overall writes to a SSD in a given amount of time of usage by using system memory as a ramdisk so using SSD's nowadays are much safer to use and do last far longer from a rewriting perspective in general than times past BUT also
make no mistake that the #2 truth is that the SSD rewrite testing still shows that ALL SSD's, regardless of all the advancements to date, will still FAIL for the very SAME reasons that they failed in the past.....it only took MUCH LONGER for the recent crop of SSD's to reach failure than the earlier ones did.
Until the day arrives that the SSD NAND sector development reaches the point that the NAND can be written to multiple times w\o incurring ANY NAND sector damage whatsoever across eternity, the risk is still there for a SSD to eventually fail due to multiple writes to it. This IF part of SSD usage is a fact. The WHEN an SSD will fail part is the only argument that can't be tied to a specific time frame or even SSD usage pattern for that matter and it is this part of the argument that all the discussion on the BBS from all of us posters is really all about.
I myself am using all SSD's in my box as noted in sig below, have been using the 2 OCZ Vertex4 SATAIII SSD's since 10-'12 (the Plextor PCI-E SSD was added last year) w\ a pagefile set up on them along w\ ReadyBoost enabled on top of that and am using Plextor's Turbo Cache software on the PCI-E SSD to date and have found not 1 SSD's NAND sector gone bad to date and not 1 SSD in my box has tested to show any sign of performance loss to date BUT my results to date does not PROVE that what Skuzzy has said is WRONG when all the SSD rewriting testing that has been done actually still PROVES Skuzzy to be RIGHT. The only thing concerning SSD rewrite failures that has really changed is the time frame and to an extent the severity of the failure itself in which to expect from a SSD when it "potentially" fails.
It is all about user risk tolerance and understanding the virtues\consequences of using SSD's when making a choice as to whether a user chooses to use a SSD or a HDD in their computer as both devices will still FAIL, just 1 has a much better track record vs the other in this regard, at this time in their development cycles.
Ok I'm done.
You may now continue w\ this discussion.
