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Well, it appears my hard drive had cratered.
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3532291" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>SSDs have nearly infinite read cycles, but writing to an SSD is an inherently damaging process, so they do have a limited lifespan. It's not really something that can be solved (it's just the way the writing process works), but the drive manufacturers mitigate it by overbuilding the drives so they have "spare" cells and by using a process called "wear leveling" to spread the writes out across the physical media.</p><p></p><p>Most consumer-level users aren't going to write enough to appreciably decrease the capacity of a decent SSD. We exclusively use SSDs for our data collection at work, and we're routinely filling 1TB drives on a weekly basis (when we were in full swing on a project, I was moving up to 25TB of new data every week). I've seen a few drives that have reduced capacity, but we're only talking a few GB lost on a 1TB drive, and those drives have been repeatedly filled, erased, and refilled over the course of a few years.</p><p></p><p>It's safe to say that I'm not worried about SSD durability in the slightest; all of my computers are running them. The only places I use spin drives are in my NAS at home (5TB SSDs aren't a thing yet) and in our storage servers at work (14TB SSDs <em>really</em> aren't a thing).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3532291, member: 26737"] SSDs have nearly infinite read cycles, but writing to an SSD is an inherently damaging process, so they do have a limited lifespan. It's not really something that can be solved (it's just the way the writing process works), but the drive manufacturers mitigate it by overbuilding the drives so they have "spare" cells and by using a process called "wear leveling" to spread the writes out across the physical media. Most consumer-level users aren't going to write enough to appreciably decrease the capacity of a decent SSD. We exclusively use SSDs for our data collection at work, and we're routinely filling 1TB drives on a weekly basis (when we were in full swing on a project, I was moving up to 25TB of new data every week). I've seen a few drives that have reduced capacity, but we're only talking a few GB lost on a 1TB drive, and those drives have been repeatedly filled, erased, and refilled over the course of a few years. It's safe to say that I'm not worried about SSD durability in the slightest; all of my computers are running them. The only places I use spin drives are in my NAS at home (5TB SSDs aren't a thing yet) and in our storage servers at work (14TB SSDs [I]really[/I] aren't a thing). [/QUOTE]
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