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Originally Posted by NOTR
Here's an excerpt from an article on http://icrontic.com/news/micron-alle...nand-endurance
"Even Intel’s MLC-based X25-M G2 drive is estimated to have a 31,500 cycle write endurance, which is good for 20GB of erase/write sequences a day, every day, for five years. If that’s not enough, the company has included a 100GB/day margin of error."
Quite honestly for the price, I would pay $280 and replace them yearly because that's how noticeable the speed increase is. |
I am wondering if the speed stays up later on in the drives life.
The way it handles its write endurance is that it will take something like an ini file or a cfg file of a program that gets written to every time the program is closed and move it around the drive. So that it doesn't continuously write to the same spot. Eventually this creates fragmentation issues. So your drive might be lickety-split right now and will be not so much in 4 or 5 years...
BTW - The windows page file would be a good example of a file that will be written to every few seconds while you are actively using the operating system. At a few gigs in size it can really add up quickly and have to me moved constantly by the drive.