Do you think six years is a long lifetime for an SSD?
Surprisingly, it was working again after I reinstalled windows, even though windows claimed the disk may fail soon during installation. We will see how long it lasts. I lost nothing. I had all my stuff in the cloud and even if I didn't, I would have been able to recover it.
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While we're on the topic, does anyone know about how big internal SSDs can get? I was at Best Buy the other day, but the biggest they had was 2TB, and I don't think that's going to be enough, considering how fast I filled up 1TB on this mechanical drive.
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My ssd 128gb is from release date of Intel 2500k (it means almost 9 years) still working fine. Btw I am still on this pc. Only bought gtx970 in meantime. But next year I will buy new pc probably ryzen, not sure if will be able to wait for ZEN3 but will try.
Btw my pc is working 24h per day
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I bought a really expensive SSD when they first came out which died right after the warranty expired.
I think what keeps me away from going out and buying SSD's is not that they fail (all drives eventually fail),
but typically a HDD will exhibit signs of failure to give you a chance to move stuff off (corruption, bad sectors, long seek times)
SSD's always just stop responding entirely when they die,working fine one day and the next, not being detected at all.
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Actually that's not always the case. In my case, I was doing some heavy work on my main HDD and suddenly it all stalled. I could move the mouse but anything that required disk access, even just closing a program, would not work. I thought it was the main HDD with that, long seek times. It kept happening after scanning the whole disk and only finding 4 bad sectors, but by the time I realized it might not be the main HDD, it happened again and it stopped being detected. Signs were there, I just didn't interpret them correctly.
Good thing is that for one or another reason I tried booting up next morning and it worked, long enough to make a complete system image; then I closed Windows and it stalled again right then. So about data - I only lost LibreOffice config. I was lucky.
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Download Hard Disk Sentinel, it's free and it can show you the health and performance of a drive, with SSDs it also shows you the lifetime usage, now with a normal HDD its lifetime is vaguer, it just breaks with time while with an SSD its lifetime is dependent on its usage, an SSD has a max usage and once you reach that the SSD is unusable, so research your SSD and make sure what the lifetime writes on it is.
Additionally never defragment an SSD , let's say you have a 100 gig SSD and it has 40gigs on, once you defrag it it essentially writes the content on again doubling the usage in this case.
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So I tried to spend as little this month as possible, but unexpected spendings just keep coming in when I have little to no money. Last night my system disk failed, a 60gb SSD I got in January 2014. Today I got another one, 4 times the space for half the price. And the disk weights like 3 times less, what do they use to make these, dehydrated potatoes?
In the end, I'm more bitter about the spending than relieved I barely lost anything (you know, backups and stuff). That's why I'm venting off about the issue. But also, I didn't consider or realize that the SSD was quite old and the ones from that generation were more prone to fail than modern ones, or so I've read. It certainly hasn't had a happy life, so I'm kind of amazed it has really lasted almost six years. Was I lucky with this disk? Or should I have expected even longer lifetime?
At least now I'll be able to install The Lord Of The Rings Online on the SSD...
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