![]() ![]() Note 2: After the pc and ssd were about 2 months old, around September, I changed the pc's power profile so it would Never Sleep. That's why only 528 GB have been written to the ssd since Dec 23rd, even though the pc is set to Never Sleep and is always powered on. (Note 1: After RL reached 95%, I took some steps to reduce "unnecessary" writes to the ssd by moving some frequently written files to a hard drive, for example the Firefox profile folder. The latest decrease in RL, from 94% to 93%, occurred after writing only 138 GB in 20 days. Below is the log I began keeping after I noticed RL reached 95% after about 6 months of use.Īssuming RL truly depends on bytes written, the decrease in RL is accelerating and something is very wrong. Anyone who does this is wasting their time massively and worrying about something that's never going to happen.The Remaining Life (RL) of my Crucial MX500 ssd has been decreasing rapidly, even though the pc doesn't write much to it. None of those drives are for sale any more, so you're right it's ridiculous in 2021 to be worrying about limiting writes to your SSD. Back in 2009 / 2010 this added further fuel to the "My SSD is gonna asplode!!!1!" paranoid fear. There are still some older drives out there that will write to the same section of the same chip over and over and over until it pops. It was introduced in 2009 and didn't become mainstream until 2010. Windows 11 will not wear out a QLC drive, no matter how many times you delete and reinstall Skyrim.Īll SSDs do not have wear levelling. If you're running a SAN device on FreeBSD, or a high-volume transactional database server, then sure, maybe worry about what type of chips your SSD has. ![]() The only people who it really makes a difference to are the Infrastructure engineers at banks, power stations or airport control towers, who need to KNOW that their solid state drive is not going to fail when used in a high-volume transactional database. All of them will perform the exact same in Windows. SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC, all of these are totally meaningless to consumers. These were the drives that gave SSDs their "limited write cycles, bursts into flames if you defrag it or use it for Swap file" reputation. That type of software tends to be there just to improve SSD benchmarks and nothing else. Windows will do a better job of caching your data on its own. "Momentum Cache" is not worth installing. ![]() Any SSD you can buy now has wear-levelling and spare area, so you should basically treat it like it has UNLIMITED write cycles, because it will never wear out no matter what you do to it. SSDs have come a long, long way since 2008. ![]() So your MFT was always on the same area of the same flash chip getting overwritten every time you changed a file. However what made the problem way worse was that those early drives just put all the data onto the flash in the same order you wrote it, and never moved it around. If you wrote too much to a 2008 SSD it could fail. Nobody ever talked about write cycles until the very first consumer SSDs came to market, which had very low quality flash and a somewhat limited number of writes. Well guess what, HDDs have a limited write cycle lifespan as well! Surprising huh? Right now.ĭid you ever worry about write cycles on your HDD? No, of course not. ![]()
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