Friday, October 28th 2011
Intel Releases SSD Toolbox 3.0 Software
Intel released the Solid-State Drive Toolbox 3.0 system software, which it recommends for use with its SSDs. SSDs have a limited number of times they can rewrite data onto their NAND flash cells. The most common 20-nanometer class MLC NAND flash offers around 5,000 rewrite cycles. This software monitors your Intel SSD for performance degradation, and provides a measure of how many rewrite cycles are left, so you can plan beforehand about backing up your data and replacing it. The software also provides a suite of diagnostics for your Intel SSD. Lastly, the software can update your drive's firmware without the need for a DOS bootable disk.
DOWNLOAD: Intel SSD Toolbox 3.0
15 Comments on Intel Releases SSD Toolbox 3.0 Software
But dont panic as that is quite a lot. Let me explain:
Say you write 100GB data a day to your 120GB SSD (lets say 20GB is taken up with OS & software)
It would take 3000 days for it to wear out. This is 8 years!!!
EDIT: i recommend people to read the pdf too
That's less than 14 per day (calculated over just one year).
I'm sorry, but my system does more of that (14) in an hour.. so how is this reliable?
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www.corsair.com/blog/cat/tech/post/force-series-ssd-life-testing/?___store=de&___from_store=en
it was able to withstand 240 TiB of writes before crapping out.
you would have to write 650gb of data per day for said SSD to die in 1 year. i doubt you can write 650gb per day for a year nor can you do 325gb per day for 2 years or 167gb per day for 4 years essentially its more likely the PCB that holds the SSD's controller is going to fail before memory chips reach there write capacity.
Now, for the average user, the average life might indeed be somewhere around 5 years... but not as a result of the math you just showed.