February 25, 201115 yr I was reading the net (first problem lol) and apparently there's only so many writes an SSD can do before it fails?Is this true? If so, what is the life span of current SSD technology? Are we talking 2 years, or like 10 years? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
February 25, 201115 yr Good question. You'd think it would be an obvious one, but it's not really that easy to answer. The drives I've seen are measured in something I believe is called MTBF (mean time between failures) in hours.Anyway, five years I believe is the average you can take away from their figures. In five years I'll have a PC that can run circles around my current one, and my current SSD will probably be obsolete anyway. :Thinking: That being said, some folks keep PCs for 5+ years (Mom/Dad...) and think it's cutting edge because it was expensive... 6 years ago... ___________________________________________________________________________________ Zachary Waddell -- Caravan Driver -- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zwaddell Avsim ToS Avsim Screenshot Rules
February 25, 201115 yr I was reading the net (first problem lol) and apparently there's only so many writes an SSD can do before it fails?Is this true? If so, what is the life span of current SSD technology? Are we talking 2 years, or like 10 years?It is not measured in years, but in "writes"..If you put FSX on an SSD, it should be good for a looong time Bert
February 25, 201115 yr Although you could just as easily open a file with both read and write priveledges and only actually read from it, but a write would be forced when you closed the file. I doubt FSX however has such sloppy code :)
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