Solid State Drives-(Updated. 11/20)
I hope someone knows about this... :h So, I bought a Sony ultrabook bout 17 months ago. Great specs, I7 processor, 8G ram, 256G SSdrive. Had it up to Windows 8.1 and I love the computer and W8. OK...
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GordonThree wrote:NinerBikes wrote:
Damn, you guys are good! Noted for posterity. Flash drive memory fails too, only so many cycles out of it before it goes bad, I guess?
Technically, yes the flash chips in an SSD have a finite number of read/write/erase cycles, but it's in the millions. If the drive is really dead, it's more likely that some mechanical failure killed it, like a broken solder joint or trace. It could also be a virus or other malware nuked the boot sector rendering the missing operating system message. ...
Not only is the number of write cycles very large, it's large enough that the average computer user would never encounter it. You'd need to write large amounts of data 24 hours a day for several years to hit it.
For the average user, they would most likely replace the drive before hitting the max write ceiling. Most estimates I have seen say an average user should be able to use an ssd for about 8 years or so.
