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Old 03-01-2017, 01:18
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I'm impressed with mine in the pc, even the normal hard drives are still pretty strong, the health of my SSD is now 72% health considering i bought the new pc in May 2012. The other 2 2TB hard drives are both WD, one was throwing a wobbly last year as the health all over the place and i did say should i replace it but i haven't yet and both are same age albeit getting slower searching for stuff but 98% healthy.

This year i will be making a fresh back up on 2 brand new internal drives so when they do die i start with new replacements put in. This SSD seems it will last another 5 years or so at the rate it's going.
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Old 03-01-2017, 01:25
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First one (OCZ) lasted a couple of months.

Current two, both Samsung, are ticking over nicely

Still do regular backups of both drives
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Old 03-01-2017, 07:30
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My Samsung 860 EVO 256 GB is 'good' with 26.8TB writes. All those scare stories, hmm.

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Just finished my Skylake build with a 950 PRO M.2 drive, they have an even faster one coming out now, teach me for taking four months to put the PC together.
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Old 03-01-2017, 08:38
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Yes, my SSD is still doing well. I watched a YouTube video where one fella said that unless you totally abuse them with writes, they should outlive the use of your computer. I've written 6.22TBs to it since I got it in 2015. Unless someone receives a faulty one, SSDs should last years and years.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:02
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i have two, a 120GB Corsair force 3, which according to ssd life have a health of 97% and have had 27TB of data written to it. It is getting on now, I got it in August 2011, so it is over 5 years old and still going strong. The other one is a Corsair 240GB Neutron XT whihc i got last January, but for some reason, both SSD life and corsair toolbox will not give any info on it. But it is working fine.

My other drives is a six year old 500Gb seagate hybrid, which is still working fine and a 2 year old toshiba 2TB drive.

The one drive i thought may have gone belly up is a hitachi external, but it still keeps going, years old it is, crystal info have been giving me a caution about it for over 12 months now. Everything on it is backed up, maybe it is time to take it out of service.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:30
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Kingston 240GB SSD bought in Feb 2014...

Power On Hours: 22653 (943 days)
Lifetime Writes: 9115GB
Lifetime Reads: 17872GB
Retired Blocks: 0
Life Remaining: 100%
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Old 03-01-2017, 11:22
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I've got a 500GB Samsung 840 Pro. Not your typical desktop usage as it running a database app which is updated 24x7 which is closing on 1.7PB of writes and still no issues.
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:40
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Modern ssds will last a very long time.

In fact, it is usually the interface electronics that dies first not the actual memory (same for hdd).

In the end, main thing is to make regular image backups to another drive,
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:16
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How do you check the health of your SSD drive?
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:36
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How do you check the health of your SSD drive?
Get the software for it from the SSD section of the manufacturer's site.
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:39
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Yes, my SSD is still doing well. I watched a YouTube video where one fella said that unless you totally abuse them with writes, they should outlive the use of your computer. I've written 6.22TBs to it since I got it in 2015. Unless someone receives a faulty one, SSDs should last years and years.
I should say that that was my second one. The first was in 2014.
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Old 04-01-2017, 02:25
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A modern SSD should outlast the rest of your PC.

Having said that, I always seem to be upgrading sizes and to newer models as the price comes down. Friends seem to inherit my older drives as I upgrade.
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Old 04-01-2017, 02:42
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Transfer Rate Information - Hard Disk Sentinel

Total Data Read - 1,557,067 MB since installation (09/05/2012)
Total Data Write - 1,911,713 MB since installation"
Power on days 1273

I think that's wrong as i'm downloading 500gb a month approx
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Old 04-01-2017, 08:49
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Transfer Rate Information - Hard Disk Sentinel

Total Data Read - 1,557,067 MB since installation (09/05/2012)
Total Data Write - 1,911,713 MB since installation"
Power on days 1273

I think that's wrong as i'm downloading 500gb a month approx
I have upgraded 50+ PCs and Macs over the last few years with SSDs. Only ever had one fail, which was a Crucial 1TB MX200. It was just inside 12 months and Crucial replaced it with a 1TB MX300 for me.
However, regardless of their reliability, as others have said here backup, backup, backup.
One backup copy is nowhere near enough - that's easy enough to destroy just by finger trouble even without hardware failure (e.g. copying in the wrong direction, or deleting by mistake and then propagating the deletion to the backup).
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Old 04-01-2017, 09:03
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Get the software for it from the SSD section of the manufacturer's site.
I wonder why the software could not pick up the stats on my Neuton, very strange.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:04
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I wonder why the software could not pick up the stats on my Neuton, very strange.
Unless the software only works with Corsair SSDs that are a certain age and newer maybe. Dunno.
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Old 04-01-2017, 10:18
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I have upgraded 50+ PCs and Macs over the last few years with SSDs. Only ever had one fail, which was a Crucial 1TB MX200. It was just inside 12 months and Crucial replaced it with a 1TB MX300 for me.
However, regardless of their reliability, as others have said here backup, backup, backup.
One backup copy is nowhere near enough - that's easy enough to destroy just by finger trouble even without hardware failure (e.g. copying in the wrong direction, or deleting by mistake and then propagating the deletion to the backup).
I've been using one backup for years and years now and it's not failed me yet. Could something happen to make me think twice about that? Yes, I suppose. I'm very careful though and always double/triple check what I'm backing up slowly. I like using discs for backing up.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:00
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I've been using one backup for years and years now and it's not failed me yet. Could something happen to make me think twice about that? Yes, I suppose. I'm very careful though and always double/triple check what I'm backing up slowly. I like using discs for backing up.
Seems a risky strategy to me. Depending on the method you use for backup a catastrophic failure to the source drive in the middle of a backup could potentially lose you everything. At the very least stick your critical documents and data into a free online cloud - DropBox, Google Drive etc.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:14
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Seems a risky strategy to me. Depending on the method you use for backup a catastrophic failure to the source drive in the middle of a backup could potentially lose you everything. At the very least stick your critical documents and data into a free online cloud - DropBox, Google Drive etc.
Sticking critical documents into a free online cloud?

All your data are belong to us. And your security / privacy.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:23
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Unless the software only works with Corsair SSDs that are a certain age and newer maybe. Dunno.
Even SSD life could not pick up the stats, really strange.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:27
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Sticking critical documents into a free online cloud?

All your data are belong to us. And your security / privacy.
Yep, use drop box for two documents and they are encrypted and not that important, I do not use any other ones.

But having one back up is risky, anything that is very important i also back up onto two pen drives, my mate have one and I have the other, when I go and visit I copy the files to the drive there that have been updated.

Not that much do get updated, they are normally personal stuff.
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Old 04-01-2017, 11:50
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Seems a risky strategy to me. Depending on the method you use for backup a catastrophic failure to the source drive in the middle of a backup could potentially lose you everything. At the very least stick your critical documents and data into a free online cloud - DropBox, Google Drive etc.
You could lose all your data if you start uploading to a cloud service and then your storage device dies suddenly. My method is pop in a DVD and then write to it using multisession.
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:03
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Sticking critical documents into a free online cloud?

All your data are belong to us. And your security / privacy.
Critical does not necessarily mean confidential. Perhaps I am less important than you, but I don't think the world is interested in my information, it's really quite boring. I will live with the risk of a data breach of Google compared to the risk of me losing the data myself. The only thing I worry about protecting are passwords to online financial information. To that end I always abbreviate any passwords I keep in plain text on my disk (I have an encrypted file with the full passwords). I also whole disk encrypt my system drive. Having said that any illegal access to my accounts would most likely be recoverable through the financial institution involved. Furthermore of the 500 million Google accounts (or whatever the number is) can you give me instance of one person who has had data compromised (by an act of Google) leading to financial loss that wasn't recovered. I suspect not - however if you took a sample of 500 million users doing their own ad-hoc backup I can guarantee that a small proportion of those (but still a large number) have suffered irretrievable data loss of important information.

Incidentally I may not be paranoid about privacy, but I am paranoid about data loss - having worked 50 years in IT and also on numerous occasions having had to say to friends and family "I'm sorry you've lost those files forever".. So, as a result, I have my critical data (not necessarily confidential) backed up to a RAID array in my study, and also backed up to DropBox, OneDrive, iCloud and an online backup service called Backblaze.
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:07
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You could lose all your data if you start uploading to a cloud service and then your storage device dies suddenly. My method is pop in a DVD and then write to it using multisession.
I don't think so because it would typically be an incremental file backup. The sort of scenario I was envisaging was perhaps where someone does a whole disk image copy as their backup. Once that starts writing the target it is worthless until the backup completes.
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Old 04-01-2017, 12:28
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I should also have said that I also do an image copy of my laptop to an external portable HDD. This is the most vulnerable of my backups from a privacy point of view since it is not whole disk encrypted and I often carry it with me. Also, if you really believe that the likes of Google will misuse your data then the answer is simple - encrypt it before you upload it. And when I say misuse your data, I am not talking about data that they harvest from your use of their ecosystem, but data you have deliberately uploaded to a private storage area they provide.
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