Frequent file saves will kill SSD fast?

[ykgoh]

As per title.

If I have a bad habit of saving my document file for every few lines of text typed, and doing a lot of Ctrl-S, will this cause an SSD to die pretty fast?

 

[ondooy]

it would take you a gazillion saves to kill an ssd...

 

[t258jgn]

I used a spare ssd for climbing for 3yrs also never die

 

[Ark Law]

You do this 24/7 non-stop then only maybe your SSD die faster

 

[yusoffb01]

i torrented on 128gb ssd for 3 years before selling at 96% life. then I bought zotac 480gb and continue torrenting. speed is good! 40MB download and upload.

but if you have tlc ssd (common nowadays to cut cost) wont last as long as MLC

 

[jtjt00]

Nothing to worry. On the hand, it is a good habit to save frequently.

 

[watzup_ken]

This is unlikely to cause any issues with the SSD lifespan. If you think saving documents frequently is bad, a single Windows update writes significantly more data.

 

[jtjt00]

In short, the SSD firmware will move your data around to reduce overwriting of a particular cell/sector. So you don't defrag an SSD.

 

[MrMundy]

After 1 year my 950 pro 250gb has 9tb written on it(Windows update mainly, software only install afew, most of my software on other SSD/hdd)
Iirc the 950 pro has a write tolerance of 200tb or something, need 20 years to hit that if I continue with 9tb/year

 

[joshuaho]

Better for your ssd to die (can always buy new one) than didn't save and lose a project than can potentially cost u a job or promotion in my opinion. Scared then just put in raid 1 Lor, 1 die still can backup. But it's a good habit to save your files

 

[Goodshot]

I tried many ssd, Samsung still the best

 

[watzup_ken]

After 1 year my 950 pro 250gb has 9tb written on it(Windows update mainly, software only install afew, most of my software on other SSD/hdd)
Iirc the 950 pro has a write tolerance of 200tb or something, need 20 years to hit that if I continue with 9tb/year

That is quite fast. Samsung Magician is showing that I have written 1.79 TB over about 2 years on my 850 Pro.

 

[Godeau]

My 120gb phoenix pro from 2010 using as an os drive on my old pc, pc already handed over to family member, still haven't died. You say leh lol

 

[MrMundy]

That is quite fast. Samsung Magician is showing that I have written 1.79 TB over about 2 years on my 850 Pro.

my bad, just checked only 3.2TB, 9Tb is my old 840 evo (used for 3 years, installed windows 3 times on it)

 

[Encrypted11]

Both my Samsung 830s from early 2012 are still alive.
One has 30k+ power on hours at <20TB host writes, the smaller one has 10k+ power on hours at 9TB+ doing perfectly fine.

Both went through a few machines already.

If your concern is how they react at their end state, this article from techreport might help. Differs from manufacturer to manufacturer. Though exhausting the media wearout indicator is not easy for consumer use. Compared to HDDs, the endurance are still a non issue.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

 

[wwenze]

The key is the number of erase cycles vs the rated endurance

Not even close to being of concern.