How old is your SSD?......
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| 1 | Got one here, an ADATA SX900 been going 1770 days or 42,480 hrs. HDSentinel reports 100% performance but 96% health. LIfetime writes 15.58TB How old is your SSD? muppet_slayer - 2020-11-06 23:51:00 |
| 2 | Samsung 860 EVO 500GB clip1 - 2020-11-07 08:24:00 |
| 3 | OCZ Agility 3 60GB, purchased 2012/13 sometime (ish). One of my first SSDs. A few years back I put this in a gaming PC I put together for one of my brothers, got it back mid last year when I upgraded his rig. Edited by event_horizon_1 at 11:23 am, Sat 7 Nov event_horizon_1 - 2020-11-07 11:22:00 |
| 4 | Don't have one, oldest HDD is 2003. No bad sectors or anything yet. lythande1 - 2020-11-07 15:08:00 |
| 5 | lythande1 wrote:
That must be as enjoyable as driving a 1970s British car on a winter's morning. sw20 - 2020-11-07 15:10:00 |
| 6 | Yeah we haven't had mechanical drives for about 10 years now. nice_lady - 2020-11-07 15:54:00 |
| 7 | The member deleted this message. nice_lady - 2020-11-07 15:54:00 |
| 8 | lythande1 wrote:
"If ain't broke don't fix it." is my motto too. perfectimages - 2020-11-07 16:30:00 |
| 9 | Doesn't have to be broken. An SSD is a dramatic upgrade above any mechanical drive! nice_lady - 2020-11-07 17:10:00 |
| 10 | clip1 wrote: Wow you been working this one hard lol muppet_slayer - 2020-11-07 18:14:00 |
| 11 | samsung 750 evo still going fine when replaced a week ago. running a couple of VMs on it Edited by king1 at 6:30 pm, Sat 7 Nov king1 - 2020-11-07 18:29:00 |
| 12 | nice_lady wrote:
Why upgrade when what you have is working fine for your purposes or are you just "keeping up with the Joneses" and spending money for the sake of it ? Edited by perfectimages at 9:14 pm, Sat 7 Nov perfectimages - 2020-11-07 21:12:00 |
| 13 | If it's fine for you that great. I don't give a sh*t I about the Joneses. Hubby and I like a computer that works quickly. Hubby and I work hard for our money and we can easily afford to upgrade if we wish. If you have experienced the difference between a mechanical drive and an SSD and you remain happy with the mechanical drive, well that's nice for you. Edited by nice_lady at 9:22 pm, Sat 7 Nov nice_lady - 2020-11-07 21:21:00 |
| 14 | In fact as for keeping up with anyone Hubby was a very early adopter of SSD tech back about 10 years ago when he upgraded his laptop using a 60GB OCZ SSD which cost at that time $251. Keeping up ? Nah - way ahead. Edited by nice_lady at 9:34 pm, Sat 7 Nov nice_lady - 2020-11-07 21:34:00 |
| 15 | I wouldn't go back to a hdd if you paid me... HDDs are only for storage now in my book... king1 - 2020-11-07 22:04:00 |
| 16 | ????????????100% nice_lady - 2020-11-08 07:12:00 |
| 17 | Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB Still the need of platter HDDs for data. Pretty expensive 2TB SSDs. I;m using a 1TB as a data and then 2x 500GB as a internal backup so it is automated by software, bit hard to really grab a HDD every day without fail and backup or sync. 2 external backup as well (2TBs). Edited by rayonline_tm at 7:20 pm, Mon 9 Nov rayonline_tm - 2020-11-09 19:18:00 |
| 18 | Chuck a couple of SSD into a synology NAS (with more than 100 users accessing it 24/7) as a cache drive, and watch the life & drop to 1% in 18 months. I like the 5 year warranty bitsnpieces2020 - 2020-11-10 09:05:00 |
| 19 | Neither of our PCs have standard hard drives anymore. Both mine and my wifes gaming PCs have a NVMe drive for boot and important programs and a 1TB SSD for games libraries and other data. Like the others above, we would never go back. The only traditional hard drive we have left is in an old PC that we use to record our security cameras to - upgrading these to SSD just makes no sense. cube_guy - 2020-11-10 09:17:00 |
| 20 | nice_lady wrote:
Imagine if someone had said this exact same thing to you when you saying how you didn't think a sound bar was worth it to you over normal sound from TV speakers. I am sure if someone had worded a reply to you like this, you would have been totally ok with it. cube_guy - 2020-11-10 09:21:00 |
| 21 | SSD's have indeed dropped dramatically in price tho. Hubby's first one was $4 per GB. Now - maybe $0.20c per GB or less. Edited by nice_lady at 9:23 am, Tue 10 Nov nice_lady - 2020-11-10 09:23:00 |
| 22 | My old netbook which I use daily still has a 500GB HDD from 2011. Will it blow up soon? Should I replace the HDD with a SDD? tygertung - 2020-11-10 09:40:00 |
| 23 | Who cares. Bet it's slow as. Image the system into an SSD and experience the difference. Also mechanical drives are susceptable to impact damage. SSDS's not anywhere near as much. Edited by nice_lady at 9:45 am, Tue 10 Nov nice_lady - 2020-11-10 09:44:00 |
| 24 | cube_guy wrote: Edited by perfectimages at 9:50 am, Tue 10 Nov perfectimages - 2020-11-10 09:48:00 |
| 25 | tygertung wrote: yes that is well overdue for an explosion... Backblaze estimate a 50% failure rate after six years. whether/ what you replace it with is dependent on whether the performance boost of SSD will be worthwhile compared to the extra cost over mechanical (which is minimal for the smaller drives) . Having said that, if there is no data on it you care about, and there is no real mission critical need to ensure it does not fail in an untimely manner and you're prepared to just rebuild/replace when it does, then there may be little benefit in replacing the drive now if it's going OK. FYI I have an old Acer One netbook I keep in the car, SSD upgrade made some difference to it's speed but not as much as I would expect from a SSD, I suspect due to the limited specs of the netbook itself - DDR2 era Edited by king1 at 9:58 am, Tue 10 Nov king1 - 2020-11-10 09:56:00 |
| 26 | Those old netbooks had such slow CPUs (even by the standard of the day) that they aren't worth messing with IMO - just use it for as long as you can stand it for vtecintegra - 2020-11-10 10:30:00 |
| 27 | I'm running an ASUS 1215P. It still goes pretty fast as it's got a 1.6 GHz processor and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. I'm running Lubuntu Linux 20.04 primarily. It does also have Windows 7 on it, but that runs too slow now. It might go faster if I reinstall Windows? I'm not sure if Windows 10 would run faster, but I suspect not. I don't think I'll change the HDD just yet, maybe I will try a SSD next year as funds allow, but not sure how much performance difference it would make. tygertung - 2020-11-10 13:54:00 |
| 28 | Personally I wouldn't waste your money, that cpu is crap by the looks of it. king1 - 2020-11-10 14:14:00 |
| 29 | It will make a big difference. It'll read and write data at at least 3x the MB/s that the mechanical drives does and it's seek time is virtually instant. ETA: maybe king1 is right at that IS definitely a crap CPU. But SSD drives cost bugger all now. Edited by nice_lady at 2:16 pm, Tue 10 Nov nice_lady - 2020-11-10 14:15:00 |
| 30 | It is a bit slow for compiling code, but it doesn't use much electricity, which was the main design consideration. It generally runs pretty fast unless I try to use facebook. tygertung - 2020-11-10 15:14:00 |
| 31 | I once put a SSD in a lappy with a reasonably new Celeron dualcore and the only thing that improved was boot times from off to desktop. You generally had to wait for the CPU as it would run at 100% whenever you asked it to do anything, so it had the illusion of the system freezing constantly. I can only imagine how awful an Atom processor would be in a similar scenario. cube_guy - 2020-11-10 15:16:00 |
| 32 | tygertung wrote:
So it runs fast unless you get it to do one of the most basic computing tasks that pretty much everybody does these days? It sounds like a delight to use. cube_guy - 2020-11-10 15:18:00 |
| 33 | Also from memory the disk isn't very easy to access on those old netbooks - you need to disassemble most of the system to get at it and you're going to break one of the ribbon cables if you try. vtecintegra - 2020-11-10 15:29:00 |
| 34 | sw20 wrote: lythande1 - 2020-11-10 15:36:00 |
| 35 | lythande1 wrote:
Never had that bloat issue. nice_lady - 2020-11-10 16:43:00 |
| 36 | cube_guy wrote:
Almost no one is compiling programmes from source code, especially if you are a windows user. I always just get my software pre-compiled from the repositories. I dare say that windows users would typically use pre-compiled executables, as a lot of windows software is closed source, so they won't be getting the source code anyway. tygertung - 2020-11-11 05:51:00 |
| 37 | There is also a hell of a lot of open source windows software really available. nice_lady - 2020-11-11 06:00:00 |
| 38 | No doubt, but how many people are compiling it from source code, and how many people are just using it pre-built? tygertung - 2020-11-11 08:19:00 |
| 39 | I doubt that poster was referring to compiling, more likely it being slow doing basic web browsing (which is what Facebook is) vtecintegra - 2020-11-11 08:26:00 |
| 40 | 840 EVO 250GB ira78 - 2020-11-11 08:38:00 |
| 41 | perfectimages wrote: HATE that quote with a passion. Nothing to do with broken. It's about progress. Horse and carts weren't broken, longdrops in the backyard weren't broken, dial up modems weren't broken, but do you want to use those? callum.irvine - 2020-11-11 09:30:00 |
| 42 | callum.irvine wrote: Personally I think it applies very well in this situation, at the moment at least - one shouldn't *have* to upgrade to an SSD just because one *can*, in the name of *progress*, it very much depends on the individual circumstances... Horse and carts, long drops, dial up modems etc were technically superseded as against broken, but the successor eventually became better, cheaper, faster, healthier etc... But I would hazard a guess the first two at least didn't get replaced until they broke or the maintenance cost became to great... Dial up modems were functionally obsolete, the last time I saw one probably 5-7 years ago the westpac website took about 15 minutes to load... king1 - 2020-11-11 11:44:00 |
| 43 | Basic web browsing is fast on my old ASUS eee Atom machine, it is only facebook which is slow due to out of control scripts. tygertung - 2020-11-11 11:58:00 |
| 44 | tygertung wrote: ummm its slow due to the crappy cpu - the 'out of control scripts' run just fine for everyone else... king1 - 2020-11-11 12:10:00 |
| 45 | No, every other website runs just fine. Facebook does run slowly on the other, more modern computers here too. tygertung - 2020-11-11 13:03:00 |
| 46 | More modern? So something better than the CPU equivalent of a potato then? cube_guy - 2020-11-11 13:11:00 |
| 47 | Hey don't knock the potato, it's a very versatile vegetable. muppet_slayer - 2020-11-11 13:15:00 |
| 48 | Yes, and no need to be racist against older hardware. Why create e-waste if it is more than satisfactory for the job, and also with today's financial climate, who's rolling in cash anyway? Certainly not me. tygertung - 2020-11-11 13:45:00 |
| 49 | tygertung wrote: It's cool that you want to preserve old hardware etc Edited by king1 at 2:03 pm, Wed 11 Nov king1 - 2020-11-11 14:00:00 |
| 50 | tygertung wrote: and your definition of 'more modern' is? you seem rather reluctant to provide specs, and very quick to blame everything else except your own hardware You are correct though that facebook is one of the more demanding sites, but that is simply what it is... not facebook's fault... Edited by king1 at 2:10 pm, Wed 11 Nov king1 - 2020-11-11 14:02:00 |
