how much should ocz vertex stay alive?

[shloosh33]

in normal use, some movies, web surfing,email, and music.
how much long you think a 60gb ocz vertex ssd (mlc) should keep?
i heard that those drives only last a year or so...
(of course i will update it to the latest firmware)
what do you think??

*i have a macbook unibody 2.4/4gb/9400m if it matters...

(sorry for the bad english)

thx

 

[FieryFurnace]

I have a Vertex in my MacBook since March last year and everything is great!
Where did you hear that they only last a year???

 

[All Taken]

If you wrote data to the drive at a constant it would take about 5 years to degrade. Now stop worrying and use the SSD.

 

[Hellhammer]

OCZ states that Vertex' MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) is 1.5 million hours which is equal to 62 500 days which is again, equal to 171 years.

OCZ also offers 3-year warranty

Source: http://www.ocztechnology.com/produc...ocz_vertex_series_mac_edition_sata_ii_2_5-ssd

 

[disconap]

Yeah, what you may have read is that after a year performance starts to drop (more or less time depending on how often it is writing to sectors)--this is fixable, but in OSX right now it's a bit of work (hopefully future versions of OSX will include a utility specifically for this purpose):

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/841182/

 

[FieryFurnace]

Yeah, what you may have read is that after a year performance starts to drop (more or less time depending on how often it is writing to sectors)--this is fixable, but in OSX right now it's a bit of work (hopefully future versions of OSX will include a utility specifically for this purpose):

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/841182/

The Vertex is "fixing" itself when your computer is in idle/sleep-mode - OCZ calls that Garbage Collection.

 

[disconap]

The Vertex is "fixing" itself when your computer is in idle/sleep-mode - OCZ calls that Garbage Collection.

If you have the most current firmware, yes.

 

[XxEjGxX]

if it is constantly writing new data and getting rid of old data you could easy get 3 years -5 years out of it