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**Flatty** · 28th February 2012

Originally Posted by Insanityflea

I'll ++++++ rep if you can find that APP!!

Application Mover here

**Vortex** · 28th February 2012

That sounds like an awesome app Flatty!

**iNgeon** · 26th June 2012

Originally Posted by Insanityflea

Oh don't worry about lifespan, it's 2 million hours which is 228 years. More than Western Digital then.

At work started looking at SSD`s and we found SSD Write Endurance
He ran tests 24hours and most drives only made a year. Others a few months, and they are still testing.
Also, most drives under this test exceeded the MWI which expires the "Limited" warranty
How long have you had your drives, and how hard do they work ?
The speed improvement with SSD`s are amazing, but we cannot afford to loose data which means we will have to keep backups often

**Insanityflea** · 26th June 2012

Well the Vertex 3 is rated for 2 million hours or 228 years.

The drives he's using are very old and have the old controllers and technology, SSD's have changed drastically since then.

Can you find a test where they test a drive with a Sandforce 22x series controller?

**Flatty** · 26th June 2012

Any drive, spindle or ssd, will fail long before MTBF if it's not treated properly.

For pure performance you want SSD's, and they'll even drop your processing requirements enough to warrant their use. I'd say use SSD's to run your apps on, and fast spindle drives for your data - nobody can really afford SSD's for data ATM. As for backups, use low rpm, green disks.

**Arby** · 27th June 2012

I have been running SSD's for a while now. My desktop runs an agility 3 120GB and my laptop has a vertex 3 120GB in it. A pc without an SSD is a terrible thing.
I have never had bluescreens or any of the nonsense associated with the early model SSD's.

**Flatty** · 27th June 2012

Originally Posted by Arbythep00nage

I have been running SSD's for a while now. My desktop runs an agility 3 120GB and my laptop has a vertex 3 120GB in it. A pc without an SSD is a terrible thing.
I have never had bluescreens or any of the nonsense associated with the early model SSD's.

I must admit, RB, since I've been running these 2 x 64GB drives in RAID 0 config, I've had no bluescreens whatsoever. It made me a bit sick to see that Apple's single SSD has better throughput figures than my 2 SSD's combined, but that's technology for you - you can't keep up.

You've got to love the boot speeds.

EDIT: In a (normal) work environment you don't really need anything bigger than a 32GB to run Windows and your apps off, as long as you move the Windows User folder to another, non-SSD, drive, you'll be a lot more productive.