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Re:How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Sou... by gambiting on Monday September 25, 2017 @04:09AM (#15328746)
At my work I have to get a new SSD every 6-12 months because they just fail after writing around ~100TB to them, or if they don't straight up fail they become slow and start giving you read errors. I can write even a petabyte to a normal HDD and it will still work fine, but SSDs have a finite number of writes, and if you do what we do, you're going to run out within months rather than years.
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Re:How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Sou... by msl on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:02AM (#15330536)
You might want to consider trying another manufacturer's disks next. None of the SSDs tested by The Tech Report failed anywhere near that early [1].

[1] http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

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Re:How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Sou... by gambiting on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:12AM (#15330625)
They are always either Samsung 840 or 850 PRO - so according to that test they should last much longer than they do. But they don't - I suspect it's the nature of what we're doing that's killing them, it's almost all random writes, very little sequential writing. Techreport did sequential writes - so each cell was only written once per pass, while when I write 1TB of data to my drive majority of it might be focused in the same area - sure broken cells they will get moved around but the drive will run out of cells to relocate to after a while.
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Re:How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Sou... by pixl97 on Monday September 25, 2017 @06:33PM (#15334731)
If you're using Samsung in Windows, make sure you turn on RAPID mode. Also, don't run any SSD almost full, it kills your speed.

Killing PRO's in 100T is an aberration

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Re:How I Fixed a 10-Year-Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Sou... by gambiting on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:26AM (#15336841)
I'm running 2x1TB in RAID 0, so Samsung Magician doesn't let me enable RAPID mode, it just says it's unsupported. And yeah, I never run them near full, usually about 200-300GB are completely free.

Besides, RAPID mode seems to destroy performance if you care about number of operations per second(and I do very much, I'm writing millions of files to the drive every day)

http://techreport.com/review/25282/a-closer-look-at-rapid-dr...

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