SSDs?

Do SSDs still expire from excessive writes or have
they gotten that fixed.

I lost two SSDs from that a few years ago and said
the hell with them. Give me real magnetic fields.
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On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 9:24:16 AM UTC-4, Ron Hardin wrote:
Do SSDs still expire from excessive writes or have

they gotten that fixed.



I lost two SSDs from that a few years ago and said

the hell with them. Give me real magnetic fields.

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Manufacturers have done some things to improve SSD life. From what I have been able to glean, SSDs have more spare chips, to lengthen life. The drive firmware also does a better job of load leveling across the chips. What I do not know for sure is what now happens when the drive effectively reaches end of life, i.e. no more writes are possible.

If it were my design, I would transform the drive into a read-only drive, so data could be recovered. This could, of course, leave some of the data files in a corrupted state if the drive croaks while those files are being written. But I would still prefer to get 99% of my data back than zero, as it was with the earliest SSDs.

I have sold a small local software company a bunch Lenovo Thinkpad T430s (sorry, Michael Dell) equipped with modern Samsung 500GB SSDs, i7 CPUs and 16GB of memory. Yep, these are very fast laptops for doing full system builds and other software development activities that have lots of disk I/O and computing. It's been about a year and a half since the delivery of the first ones, and so far so good.

My own light-use laptop for the road and network troubleshooting has an SSD.. Real magnetic fields are nice, but head crashes are not. SSDs have no head crashes, and a laptop with an SSD can take more of a beating.

I also have some mSATA SSDs that I haven't installed yet. Same form factor as a modern wifi card, and 128GB of capacity squeezed into a small space.... Ben Myers