Early generation SSDs had a bunch of issues (I’ve lost several OCZ Vertex SSDs – pity they had such crap controllers).
I don’t think you need to worry too much about current generation SSDs. Here’s some stress testing of current SSDs: http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb 600TB written to these SSDs, and they’re still going. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 3:16 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Weird symptoms and SSD Chaps, it's a SanDisk 240MB, which is suspicious regarding your comments! I just went up to MSY and got a replacement, a Kingston this time, not another SanDisk. The shop guy said they'll send the SSD back to be analysed and either repaired or replaced. I told him it was my C: drive so I'll have to reinstall before I can give him the old one. After reading some technical stuff on SSDs several weeks ago and how they work and wear-levelling and the like I became a bit worried and moved the swap file to a HDD in an attempt to cut down the writes. It's actually a bit worrying how SSDs work when you look into them. If the C: drive can stay on life support until the weekend I'll be happy. Luckily the main work I'm on at the moment is inside a VM on a HDD D: drive. Greg
