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how much should ocz vertex stay alive?

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shloosh33

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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
 
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??? 😕
 
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.
 
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/
 
disconap said:
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/
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The Vertex is "fixing" itself when your computer is in idle/sleep-mode - OCZ calls that Garbage Collection.
 
if it is constantly writing new data and getting rid of old data you could easy get 3 years -5 years out of it
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