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Given that Intel SSDs are claimed to support writing 100GB of data every day for five years before losing the ability to write, and I rarely hit even 10GB writt
by rufo 16y ago
Given that Intel SSDs are claimed to support writing 100GB of data every day for five years before losing the ability to write, and I rarely hit even 10GB written in a bus development day according to OS X's Activity Monitor, I'm uncertain if these tweaks will make all that much of a difference in the lifespan of the drive.
- mrkurt 16y agoIt's not so much the lifespan, it's performance degradation after lots of the drive has been written to. It's not a permanent problem, but I know lots of people who notice and end up formatting to regain their performance.
- cdr 16y agoAs far as I'm aware, TRIM takes care of the performance degradation. Not sure that OSX supports TRIM yet though.
- wmf 16y agoOr it would if OS X supported it.
- WALoeIII 16y agoOS X does not support TRIM. TRIM is only enabled on the G2 Intel SSDs and newer competing models, the original G1 does not have the instruction.
- blasdel 16y agoAnd using a drive firmware that expects TRIM results in a massive regression when the kernel isn't regularly telling it to trim blocks, as it disables its normal GC. The Intel GC algorithm was great. I would have preferred it if they had simply ignored all the 'power user' fanboys that constantly harp on about how it would somehow save the day. Let them buy other drives, and leave more for the rest of us.
- cdr 16y agoIf G2s are shipping with TRIM firmware, couldn't you just downgrade to a pre-TRIM version if you're so concerned? I don't understand how running Win7 makes you a 'power user fanboy' as opposed to running OSX or Linux. Next time leave the second half of your comment off, and maybe provide some evidence for your first.
- PStamatiou 16y agoFor what it's worth my first Intel SSD (X25-M G1) died in under a year and I wasn't pushing anywhere near that much data.