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The eeprom that is written to will wear out after so many write cycles. This is a known fact with SSDs and the reason why they ship with extra sectors on them (sectors that are going bad get copied to one of the extras then marked bad). I would highly recommend placing the swap file on a platter based drive, or disabling it all together if you have enough ram.Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
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Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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For booting up windows, there will be little difference between an I3 and an I7. Don't let the dirt cheap price fool you. It's a very cable cpu. But compared to a celeron equipped netbook, that's a different story. There IS a noticeable difference between the two for booting windows and opening programs. With an SSD the celeron absolutely smokes the I3.Comment
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I've wanted to go SSD for a while now, but three things still prevent me from doing so:
1. Lack of drives with FDE.
2. Uncertainty about the max number of write cycles (time will tell that one).
3. Price (although that one may become a non-issue if the other two are dealt with).
The older laptops at work that we put SSD drives in now run as fast, or often faster than their newer counterparts with conventional platter drives.DiaHero Foundation - helping people manage diabetes. Sending diabetes supplies to Ukraine now, any help is appreciated.
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Still not as fast as my WD Raptors in RAID 0...
My partner's an Electrical Engineer, he says flash memory has a life span of 1,000 reads/writes per bit and then they start "wearing out" are SSD's flash based?
Dunno' if that's still true.Comment
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They are generally guaranteed for a minimum of 100,000 writes per page or block, but wear leveling algorithms in the controllers make sure that you're never pounding the same pages/blocks all the time. This increases the lifespan significantly.
It's really not an issue.
My Raptors sit in my drawer, I do not miss the sound of them spinning or accessing.Disenfranchised NRA Benefactor Life Member.
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The concept you are referring to came from Hard drives first, it's not just on NAND Flash. This is done so that IF a block (minimum size that can be marked bad) is determined to have failed a spare can be swapped in and the volume size will not change. It applies to hard drives as well, but on the sector level with hard drives.
I agree about the pagefile/swapfile. Disable it if you have the memory in Windows, or put it on a real HDD if you must, just because.Disenfranchised NRA Benefactor Life Member.
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