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Anecdote; I have had one of the OG intel x-25 80GB MLC SSD drives and after 5+ years of usage first as a boot drive and now as a video editing scratch disk the
by Phlarp 10y ago
Anecdote; I have had one of the OG intel x-25 80GB MLC SSD drives and after 5+ years of usage first as a boot drive and now as a video editing scratch disk the wear leveling firmware has done an excellent job. Intel's monitoring software still claims the disk has 95% of it's write capacity remaining and I have not observed any changes to it's benchmark IO performance over the life of the drive.
- tracker1 10y agoYou're lucky... mine died after the original 1 year warranty (a few days over, it detected as 10MB drive or some such), I replaced it before they had a fix for the issue... that said, every drive I've had since has been very solid, mostly using Samsung drives these days.
- pja 10y agoThe capacity error is fixable by using hdparm to secure erase the drive which as a side effect restores it’s original capacity. You still lose all your data though :(
- cwillu 10y agoThat has nothing to do with write endurance; it's a known bug in the firmware.
- tracker1 10y agoI know that it's (now) a known bug... unfortunately it wasn't known when it happened to me, and I'd long since replaced it when I found out.