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BlackMK4 posted:The system correctly detects the drive and all it just seems like it can't write to it. This is, in fact, exactly how you'd expect an SSD to fail when all its write cycles were exhausted. Much more graceful than when a hard disk reaches the end of its life, for sure. For it to only happen after a few months is very surprising though - was the SSD new when you got it? Did you have anything that could have been causing a bunch of unnecessary writes? If you check the SMART data for the drive, what does the E7 field say?
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Basically, SSDs are fine for short-term storage, but don't use them for long-term archiving. When it comes to backups and stuff like that you really want to go for a bunch of mechanical drives - for the price of 1TB of SSD storage (that's still vulnerable to things like "getting stolen" and "your house burning down"), you could have several redundant mechanical drives (including some in off-site locations).
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dietcokefiend posted:Well it wouldn't be ruling it out over time to see what stuff is real versus just free space. On a SSD a TRIM command puts the NAND back into a unused state. It would be clearly visible as a "nothing stored here, move on" deal. If you dump the controller internals, sure. The real difference, at least at this point, is that hardware FDE is going to encrypt that block map while software encryption probably isn't.
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:what do you mean by this? I see a tremendous improvement in many aspects of all sorts of games with ssds. SSDs are a ton slower than RAM. If you have enough RAM, the only benefit you'll see from using an SSD over a mechanical drive is in loading times. The only games where you'll notice a difference in-level is if the game constantly loads stuff in the background while you're playing. Typically this is just MMORPGs and open-world games (e.g. Skyrim). For anything else, once you've actually loaded in, all the data is in memory and your disk drive is doing jack squat.
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Have you considered changing the pressure dynamics in your computer case to solve the dust problem? I mean, add a couple of fans sucking air into the case (so you've got air going out all the various gaps and such instead of in), put a dust cover over them, and then you only need to clean the dust cover when it gets filthy instead of taking the whole thing apart. This is completely unrelated to the SSD issue, sorry for the derail.
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An SSD is still a "luxury" purchase, if your budget is really that tight I'd stick to spinning metal and upgrade when you can afford it.
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