Amazing price on a great LONG term product. Remember to keep it at least 25% empty to increase durability. Goes for any SSD. - KnuckleBuckett
I try to keep mine under 50% full, even though I don't understand how much write leveling affects durability; the firmware has to move data from less used areas to more used areas which obviously reduces durability.
Meh, this is MLC flash based, you could leave it 90% full and it will last a decade for *typical* power user load (not thrashed server load, which would usually be a different SSD than the OS runs on anyway).
Wear leveling greatly improves longevity. It's kind of the point.
I disagree, @Dave_C, wear leveling is independent of the cell technology. What's important is the maximum writes per cell. Wear leveling attempts to even out the writes so that the write that uses up the last write for the last cell is all that can be written. Load has nothing to do with it. The algorithms used to minimize the writes per cell are trade secrets.
I have 20 yr old hard drives that are still ticking... Heck, my 35 year old Verbatim and Nashua 5" floppies with all my Commodore 64 faves are still going strong. I've got all the stuff on USB too, as I'm sure these disks won't last forever. But they still live on! Yet, I've had newer PCs and USB memory die within a couple of yrs. Go figure....
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Wear leveling greatly improves longevity. It's kind of the point.
Thank you!