?Do solid state drives wear out quickly

[mm]

Do solid state drives wear out quickly?

SORRY ABOUT THE SUBJECT LINE. SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED TO THE KEYBOARD
AND IT ONLY TYPES LEGIBLY IN CAPS, AND THE SUBJECT LINE RUNS THE WRONG
DIRECTION

Somone somewhere wrote that because it's so fast, he wanted to get a
solid state drive to hold his operating system, and a mechanical drive
for other purposes.

I need harddrives for a Dell computer a friend gave to me without any
hard drive.

I can afford to buy a 40gig SATA solid state drive for 100 dollars,
and a bigger cheaper drive for less used things.

The big disadvantage I found listed on the WEB IS THAT THEY WEAR OUT
SOON, EVEN AFTER ONLY 1 MILLION ACCESSES. IS THAT TOO SOON.

 

[Rod Speed]

Do solid state drives wear out quickly?
Nope.

SORRY ABOUT THE SUBJECT LINE. SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED
TO THE KEYBOARD AND IT ONLY TYPES LEGIBLY IN CAPS, AND
THE SUBJECT LINE RUNS THE WRONG DIRECTION

Its possessed, beat it to death with the largest waddy you can find, that will fix the problem.

Somone somewhere wrote that because it's so fast, he
wanted to get a solid state drive to hold his operating system,

That doesnt really make a lot of sense. The OS isnt the major
user of the hard drive in the sense of what gets most access.

He actually said he wants to put the swap file on it.
It normally makes more sense to have enough
physical ram so the swapfile doesnt get used instead.

and a mechanical drive for other purposes.

I need harddrives for a Dell computer a friend gave to me without any hard drive.

I can afford to buy a 40gig SATA solid state drive for 100 dollars,

You can get one hell of a hard drive for that price, 2TB in fact.

and a bigger cheaper drive for less used things.

The big disadvantage I found listed on the WEB IS THAT THEY
WEAR OUT SOON, EVEN AFTER ONLY 1 MILLION ACCESSES.

Not with modern solid state drives.

IS THAT TOO SOON.

Depends on what you put on it.

 

[mm]

I exitted windows after two days, and today I rebooted and it's
working fine again.

In Win98, when I opened too many FFox tabs, the alphabet would change,
and iirc if I closed them or Firefox, it would go back to normal. But
this time it was a set of a, e, and i's with funny lines attached.
However I still had the right alphabet in Eudora, though not Firefox
or Agent. Even closing FF didn't help when I tried to type in Agent.
Very strange.

Its possessed, beat it to death with the largest waddy you can find, that will fix the problem.

Okay. It's working now so I'll just punish it for last night.

That doesnt really make a lot of sense. The OS isnt the major
user of the hard drive in the sense of what gets most access.

He actually said he wants to put the swap file on it.

I'm sure your right. I looked for his post but I couldn't find it. I
was probably even wrong about what ng it was in.

It normally makes more sense to have enough
physical ram so the swapfile doesnt get used instead.




You can get one hell of a hard drive for that price, 2TB in fact.



Not with modern solid state drives.

One of my big complaints about the web is that so few pages of all
sorts have dates on them. And I thought there might be a date in the
web page source code, but I haven't found that either.

Sort of related: Once I wanted to find the date of a particular
hamfest, and I found 5 announcement pages for it, none with the year
mentioned. I had to check which date came out on a Sunday.

Depends on what you put on it.

I was thinking a million accesses might be only a year or two for some
files on the drive, and that would be too short for me.

 

[Rod Speed]

mm wrote

I exitted windows after two days, and today I rebooted and it's working fine again.

In Win98, when I opened too many FFox tabs, the alphabet would change,
and iirc if I closed them or Firefox, it would go back to normal. But
this time it was a set of a, e, and i's with funny lines attached.
However I still had the right alphabet in Eudora, though not Firefox
or Agent. Even closing FF didn't help when I tried to type in Agent.
Very strange.

Nope, FFox can be pretty resource hungry.

Okay. It's working now so I'll just punish it for last night.

I'm sure your right. I looked for his post but I couldn't find it.
I was probably even wrong about what ng it was in.

One of my big complaints about the web is that so few pages of
all sorts have dates on them. And I thought there might be a date
in the web page source code, but I haven't found that either.

Yeah, can be a problem, and unlike with usenet, you dont necessarily
see anyone pointing out obvious howlers in quite a bit of web page stuff.

Sort of related: Once I wanted to find the date of a particular
hamfest, and I found 5 announcement pages for it, none with the
year mentioned. I had to check which date came out on a Sunday.

I was thinking a million accesses might be only a year or two
for some files on the drive, and that would be too short for me.

There arent too many modern SS drives with million access limits and
wear levelling which is universal now helps dramatically with that too.

It would normally only be the swap file that sees anything like doing
that in a year or two, we are talking about writes, not reads.