Go ahead keep on to your little myths and old traditions if they give you a piece of mind. But if you think yours is the truth than back it up and read up on the subject probably and analyse the available data. If you don't do that don't spread your baseless nonsense in forums.
People reading the headlines of some tabloid online paper and spreading their hard earned wisdom around is why there are so many baseless myths that never die on the web.
The problem existed when an ssd wrote 10 times the data it was actually supposed to write on its nand when the access was mostly random. New controllers work much smarter with spare area and sophiticated data tables, they cycle data over the entire drive to wear out everythin equally (unlike some earily flash drives). Sandforce write 0.6 times and Intel 1.1 times the data it is supposed to write. Samsung & Co maybe 2 or 3 max. The less random access the lower that number usually is. Sequential is usually just 1:1. So downlaoding a big file really is kind of the best case and the random data on a consumer machine just doesn't add up to a whole lot.
Assuming you have a 128GB drive and write 10 GB of data a day. Every day through the entire time every day of the year. I guess most people manage less than 1 GB a day and only heavy users manage something like 5 on average.
Assuming 10Gb which would be some heavy downloader or heavy movie editing guy. To get your nands to 1000 write cycles you need to write 128 000 GB / 10 a day that means you will need 12800 days / 360 bank year days that is 35 years.
That was 1000 cycles. Now 25/20nm nand last 3000 cycles. 34nm much more. Even with the high write amplification of Toshiba controllers you won't wear it out in 10 years not even if you are a heavy user.
The only people with a chance are some movie editiors that copy back and forth dozens of GB a day and they will probably take the bad with the good for all the benefit it provides and considering they will buy it new before they use it 5 years probably anyway.
Next keep in mind a nand cell can only hold its charge for about 10 years in will probably die in that timeframe regardless of it's use.
Controller chips like most chips are designed to last 5+ years and usually show ever increasing failure rates past that timeframe, maybe a time at which you probably own a new notebook anyway with a new much faster much larger ssd.
It is just nonsense to worry about that. Use the ssd and enjoy that it doesn't have to waste battery on the hdd unless it is needed and that just doesn't make a sound under normal use.
Why aren't you working for some company? You seem to have a whole collection of knowledge, maybe you know better then the engineers that design the drives and pass it onto final phase so they can be manufactured dude.
Its great they can last 5+ years, But you know what buddy my job isn't to tell someone to push their limits, If i see a safer way for someone to do something and get the most of it without falling into issues, then thats what I'm gonna share, It has nothing to do with letting posts like mine run around forums for years. This is how I handle safe, Also Im not forcing anyone to do what I did, It clearly states in the first few lines of my first post that you may not be able to do the way I have it setup and also I mentioned that You may do a different setup that works for you. Sure you want to push your limits to the sky but my friend I Just bought my first ever mac, first ever SSD drive so I'm gonna be careful with it because it costed me a fortune. Maybe your made of money more then I am and yes everyone is different so everyone uses things differently.
Im not sure where you got your data from about LIGHT and HEAVY users buddy but My laptop is on 15hours of the day and in that time I watch video lecture notes from my Drive, type documents, surf the web(youtube,Facebook, news etc) and my disk read/write reports about 3GB read/5GB write on average day and I don't do any video editing, playing games Absolutely nothing for the past 3 months as I'm studying for a board exam. Now you tell me where the heck you getting 1GB from.
Truth is without research one shouldn't be the judge and its technology we can never trust it, with every new milestone it reaches, consumers have to reach up to it slowly so they don't face any sort of disappointment especially the ones that don't have the extra money to fork out incase a problem arises.
You shouldn't criticize me for sharing something that will help people avoid issues as not all drives are equally reliable. Sure if you have something nice to add then break it down for others, provide your drive info, how long have you had it for, any issues that came up etc etc.
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Btw, about redirecting folders..
If I wanted to redirect, say, the Downloads folder and move it to HDD, how would I go about doing that? Is it ok to create a Downloads folder on the HDD in optibay, then copy all the Downloads data from SSD to the Downloads folder on HDD and then create an alias of it on the HDD - and finally move that alias to SSD?
Yup thats what I do, just make Alias to my SSD from my HDD and it works great
🙂 you can do that with every/any folder you wish
