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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnGabriel View Post
    Mine didn't wear out from any sort of write-life as far as I know, they were fairly new. They just up and quit working, assuming one of the chips on board fried. One of the bad things of SSDs is I couldn't recover any of the data like on traditional hard drives. Goes bad, and your data is just gone.
    Fair point. To paraphrase the gaming strategy: backup early, backup often. The only time I've lost anything in the last 20 years is when I was putting off backups or hadn't replaced a backup device. I have yet to have any SSD fail outright; the 48GB ones degraded in speed but they still didn't fail. I work with SSDs daily and the only failures I've ever seen of those is a cheap brand with large block sizes that were used in a linux environment with shit-tons of small writes, resulting in ~22x write amplification, resulting in gigabytes of writes per day.

    Point is, as long as you're being sane about backups, there's no reason to segregate games drives and OS drives and I doubt the original concerns have been factors since about the second gen for any of the reputable manufacturers.
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    Mine didn't wear out from any sort of write-life as far as I know, they were fairly new. They just up and quit working, assuming one of the chips on board fried. One of the bad things of SSDs is I couldn't recover any of the data like on traditional hard drives. Goes bad, and your data is just gone.
    It is very important to backup the data on SSD. I got 2 dead and lost my files forever.
    Last edited by Gorillamp : 08-06-2016 at 02:49 AM

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