I have 5.8tb on mine, that I've had since jan 2010.


On Aug 26, 2012, at 4:22 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow. That number is _extremely_ high for only 2 years of usage. You have
> something performing heavy writes to the disk.
> 
> With 276TB of writes, 25% life is probably spot on. That means you're around
> 330GB/day of writes on average--something is definitely going on. I upgraded
> to my current Intel 320 in May of 2011, and I'm at 6.67TB of writes, so
> around 14GB/day.
> 
> The darlings at the moment are the Samsung 830 and Crucial m4 (and possibly
> the new Plextor M5 Pro), but unless you figure out what it is that's writing
> so much data to your SSD, you're just going to kill it too.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> At 01:09 PM 8/25/2012, you wrote:
>> What does the utility report for writes (TB's)?
> 
> 276.93
> 
> I don't defrag it, there are no auto backups, and I have a 5GB RAM drive as
> my \temp folde. I am aware of every service and everything that autoloads so
> if that  TB number is excessive I don't know where  writes are coming from.
> I have too much physical RAM for it to be the swap.
> 
> Are Crucial still the current best SSDs Greg? thanks  
> 
> 
> 

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