Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ...
by tomc1985 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @02:46AM
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As a counterpoint, I burn-tested several random M.2 NVME drives over a period of a month of 24/7 writes and reads and all but one model failed before the month was up
Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ...
by rbanffy on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:52AM
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Heat dissipation can be an issue. Writing continuously generates a lot of heat.
Re:Threadripper 3990X: The Quest To Compile 1B Lines Of C++ ...
by tomc1985 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:52PM
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Part of the purpose of a burn test is to see how it handles temperature under load. We didn't have the option of adding cooling, many of the product installations took place in a hot climate, and nobody wanted to pay for a hardened part...
Anyway, my point is that SSD drive reliability varies wildly
The SMART stats of the drive says it's at 88% health out of 100%, AKA it'll be dead when it reaches 0%. This is the wear and tear on the drive after ~6 years of full time usage on my primary all around dev / video creating / gaming workstation. It's been powered on 112 times for a grand total of 53,152 running hours and I've written 31TB total to it. 53,152 hours is 2,214 days or a little over 6 years. I keep my workstation on all the time short of power outages that drain my UPS or if I leave my place for days.
Here's a screenshot of all of the SMART stats: https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis/status/1357127351772012544
I go out of my way to save large files (videos) and other media (games, etc.) on a HDD but generally most apps are installed on the SSD and I don't really think about the writes.