I don't know. Theoretically, it should die on a write, not on a read, but I've honestly never seen a failure caused by NAND wearout - everything I've seen was caused by a defect or firmware crash.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Intel SSD Toolbox I don't get it. The only thing I have on that drive is Windows7 Pro and Programs. My anti virus is MS Security Essentials, ,my firewall = Windows. I don't keep data on that drive outside of what is on the desktop. Taskmanager tells me I am running 130 processes and I have 8GB of free RAM. Something must be writing to it but how can I find out. There is no chance that Smart Drive is wrong is there? So what's going to happen, it will just die one day without warning? Or will it give me a final countdown. At 01:22 PM 8/26/2012, you 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----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Winterlight >Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 2:23 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [H] Intel SSD Toolbox > >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
