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Vas Crabb
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Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD?
08/29/17 05:09 AM


Yeah, pretty much. Once you burn through the write endurance, the SSD is toast. That's why I keep my swap files, scratch space for compiling MAME, etc. on a hard disk and just keep OS and applications on SSD. That way I'm not using up the write endurance too quickly. The better SSDs give you plenty of warning before they fail, but the cheaper ones don't. In theory the Intel SSDs are supposed to go into read-only mode and let you recover data once they hit write endurance limit, but in practice that doesn't seem to happen. This is all pretty well-known stuff.






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* Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? SmitdoggAdministrator 08/29/17 05:00 AM
. * Replacement SSD just died with the same error SmitdoggAdministrator  09/07/17 03:12 AM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error krick  09/07/17 05:06 AM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error Pi  09/08/17 03:19 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error casm  09/08/17 05:55 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error SmitdoggAdministrator  09/09/17 05:03 AM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error Foxhack  09/09/17 10:51 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error SmitdoggAdministrator  09/09/17 11:20 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error MooglyGuy  09/11/17 06:15 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error Haze  09/11/17 06:28 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error JWJr  09/09/17 03:34 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error SmitdoggAdministrator  09/09/17 06:18 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error redk9258  09/11/17 02:22 AM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error Pi  09/11/17 03:24 AM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error JWJr  09/09/17 06:56 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error SmitdoggAdministrator  09/09/17 07:28 PM
. * Re: Replacement SSD just died with the same error JWJr  09/10/17 12:55 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? lharms  09/01/17 12:56 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Haze  08/29/17 04:26 PM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? uman  08/30/17 11:12 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? jonwil  08/30/17 01:03 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Haze  08/30/17 02:22 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? krick  08/30/17 03:23 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? redk9258  08/30/17 03:58 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Haze  08/30/17 03:54 AM
. * #AcronisTrueImage URherenow  08/30/17 03:00 PM
. * Re: #AcronisTrueImage JWJr  08/30/17 05:29 PM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Vas Crabb  08/29/17 05:09 AM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Pi  08/29/17 05:32 PM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? Haze  08/29/17 06:48 PM
. * Re: Hard drive crashes worse now on SSD? SmitdoggAdministrator  08/29/17 05:13 AM

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