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looking for feedback on ssd life span - have read a lot of stories of lasting 4 months to a year on the bigger ssd drives.  any real world experience over a year?   

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The one I bought when they first came out several years ago lasted a little over a year.

Not sure how much they improved since then.

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seems to be similar for the new ones also - would think it would be better but reviews haven't shown that from what I saw

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I have had mine for 8 months and it is going strong. It does have a 3 year warranty and my boot time went from over 2 minutes to 16 seconds. I bought a Samsung 512mb one.

 

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that is the draw for me greenmachine - looked at the crucial last night - but a LOT of people saying theirs (all brands) died after a year and don't want to load my main computer on a drive that i have to re install everything a year later.  they should do better with no moving parts - must be a heat thing or something.  looking for someone that says they have had theirs in for 2+ years at least

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My SSD drive is a Samsung 250gb and its been about a year and still kicking butt. I think its all how people set them up in raid or they install something or they update the driver, firmware, or they rewrite files to much and that's what causes the crash. my computers boot time went down to basically push the power button and in windows. I would think using them as a second drive wouldn't be hard on them due to they only work when you access the space.

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but the draw is using it as the boot drive with the main programs on it - second drives for storage lag isn't a big deal

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Aw Geez... quit it, you're scaring me with these short life expectations. I just ordered a PNY XLR8 this morning for a netbook and now you got me believing the sky could fall at any moment. Then again, there isn't really a lot to lose on this netbook that couldn't be recovered from the original hd. :huh:

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Aw Geez... quit it, you're scaring me with these short life expectations. I just ordered a PNY XLR8 this morning for a netbook and now you got me believing the sky could fall at any moment. Then again, there isn't really a lot to lose on this netbook that couldn't be recovered from the original hd. :huh:

that must be the newegg ad I got that got me thinking

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Here I am already walking on unstable ground as of April 8th with virtually everything owned running WIN XP, only to discover via this thread that hotrodding the netbook (WIN 7 starter) for all interwebz browzing is just as much in threat of collapse from different failure.

 

After looking at new, then rebuilt WIN 7 machines from every source I could think of for the past blurry eyed week; decided to damn the torpedeos and go full speed ahead with OS, RAM, & HD upgrade* on the cheapest machine currently owned.

 

Just to be on the safe side should I order a couple more SSD as back-up? ;D  

 

* Yea I know that's akin to lipstick on a pig

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LOL in Idaho we call it polishing a turd. (term that I first heard in the 4x4 off road community regarding spending a bunch of money on a vehicle that had no future value or ability)

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I've got an SSD in my laptop/tablet portable and it's not had any problems, but it's not a daily use machine, either.

 

Starting with Windows Vista or 7, I forget which, they started implementing the drivers that write all over the drive instead of re-writing the same sectors over and over and causing them to wear out over time (write balancing? load balancing? something like that), so some of it is going to depend on your OS, how much you delete, etc.

 

I would definitely move the Temp folder and any cache files to a spinning media HD instead of an SSD, and keep all of your documents on spinning media and/or backed up somewhere else...

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Finally got this Netbook ((Atom Ant) N450 1.6 Ghz) where I wanted with new RAM, install of upgraded Windows 7 Home Premium and new device software, so I threw caution to the wind today and cloned a PNY XLR8 as the HD. Let the countdown clock begin.

 

Still waiting for that mind boggling boot up that failed to show...not that's it's ever been shabby; just wanted better, know what I mean. Then again, one who depends on an Atom N450 shouldn't really have great expectations to begin with. 

 

On the plus side have noticed the machine appears to be running much cooler,

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