A glitch that I noticed when I first installed the earlier versions and thought was probably temporary is still bugging me. Right-clicking on the audio icon in the taskbar and selecting 'Playback devices' produces a screen that shows the speakers as selected as default, and selecting that enables a pushbutton that produces a screen in which the speakers can be tested. When I call up EasyBCD I can only click one option (i.e. The reason why I avoided SanDisk is because at some point, a decade ago, there was a market saturation with Chinese knockoff SD cards, and this made me stay way from the brand.Until Windows Update broke the RealTek audio, the test sounds came through the speakers or headphones. As for Crucial, there was only the BX500 in stock everywhere and it has 40TBW. I went for the brand that I knew would last long (using a few Transcend SD cards for >5yrs). I understand that (i) 50GB writes isn't going to be a daily thing (ii) documented endurance tests prove that SSDs can go way beyond the stated TBW, depending on the quality and brand.Īs for the choice of SSD, my budget could only afford a Tier B. I guess, I based my calculation on 50GB per day = 140 days to reach 70TB. I was very unsure about the SSD lifespan. I hoped the app would make things smoother. I had it installed because I used to have my OS and everything else on a 1Tb drive. I already manually defrag through Windows weekly anyway. It helped me a lot!Īfter some consideration based off the answer on here, I am getting rid of Diskeeper. If you want a long-lasting SSD I would look for a used Samsung Pro that has MLC flash, like the 860 Pro, in the largest size you can afford. For example a 256GB Samsung 860 Pro uses MLC flash, the most reliable and long-lasting kind of flash, and was warrantied out to 300TBW. Also the "older" flash technologies had much greater endurance. If you are paranoid about TBW, buy the next size up as TBW ratings normally double every time you double drive size, since the wear is spread out more over the flash. Obviously keep backups no matter what drive you are using.Īnother issue is your SSD size as that is impacting your TBW rating. I am all for competition so I hate to dissuade the smaller brands, but sadly my experience with them has not been good and I pretty much just stick to the bigger brands now. There is no data recovery possible like on an HDD. I have had some issues with Intel SSDs, and when you get into the smaller brands / generic brands there are semi-frequent failures. I have literally never seen a failed SSD from Samsung or Crucial, and very rarely from SanDisk. Sadly once you venture outside of the "big 3" in the SSD world (Samsung, Crucial, and SanDisk/aka WD) the reliability becomes questionable. The bigger concern I would have is the brand. By the time you have worn out a 128GB SSD, it will probably cost less than $30 to replace it. Look at what SSD prices have done in the last five years and project that 5 years into the future. And these are our heaviest users, many people write way less than this. At this rate the expected SSD lifespan for a 70TBW drive is over five years. Even with no special precautions whatsoever (such as redirecting the cache folders as you have done), our highest wear users write about 30 GB/day. On an SSD you definitely shouldn't be running it as defragging just wears out the SSD with no real benefit.Īlso you may be excessively paranoid about SSD wear. Diskeeper has always been a dubious scam product IMO, even when running on an HDD.
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