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Supporting anecdata: I had a windows 7 gaming machine that saw a fair amount of use each day, with the pagefile on an SSD, and no tuning. Took about four years

by vacri 11y ago

Supporting anecdata: I had a windows 7 gaming machine that saw a fair amount of use each day, with the pagefile on an SSD, and no tuning. Took about four years before the drive started failing (well, failing noticeably as a user).

arthurfm 11y ago
> Took about four years before the drive started failing (well, failing noticeably as a user). Was the SSD made by OCZ or had a Sandforce controller by any chance? Also anecdotal, but my 160GB Intel X25-M 'G2' has been working perfectly for the past 5 years and 10 months. So far I have written 16.92 TBs to it [1] and until I moved the drive into another PC I had been running games and VMs from it. [1] http://i.imgur.com/u3AfP9R.png http://i.imgur.com/u3AfP9R.png
- vacri 11y ago
  It was a GSkill Falcon, but I can't recall more than that.
- simoncion 11y ago
  FWIW, the drive from which I quote usage stats in my comment is a 100GB OCZ Vertex LE. So, this is the fabled "double whammy" of OCZ-manufactured drive and early SandForce chip.