Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB Question

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Ok guys here's my dilemma I know that constantly reading and writing to your SSD will wear it out quicker and it will die eventually but I want to know if I were to use my Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB SSD for mainly storing my games how long will it last (ex.2-3yrs etc..) before it craps out on me if say I fill it up not completely and leave at least 20 percent of it free and game on it 3-4 hrs a day with games like Battlefield, Crysis, Farcry, CSGO, Skyrim, TF2, SC2, etc... with many mods installed. Will it crap out on me in less than a year or will it still give me at least 2 or more. I know I can just install all my games on an HDD but I'm just curious what the longevity would be if they were all stored on my SSD instead.
 
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It depends how you feel, i personally just bought a 2tb drive, shoved it into a enclosure and do a backup once every few months as my computer is basically just for gaming and surfing the web, and if i were to work on a project i would be saving constantly to a usb flash drive anyway. But as for ssd's going bad it would take years for it to finally go bad, just like mechanical drives going bad because they have little arms that read and write off of it. but with newer software for ssd's they are trending to last longer by not using the same storage blocks repeatedly. Honestly now with TRIM and other software advances, SSD's will last 5-7 years (depending on how much you have saved onto it IE, its better to keep as far away from its...
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So basically once I install all my games and lets just say I use up about 750-800gb aside from updates to the games which would be the only read/write scenario I can think of and if I download and install any new maps I would esentially when gaming only be reading from the drive as I wouldn't install anything on it other then games for example all my Steam Library games and in that case I wouldn't really shorten my drive by much?
How long do you think my SSD would last and would it be a good idea with that much storage to backup all my games on an external 1 TB HDD?
 
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It depends how you feel, i personally just bought a 2tb drive, shoved it into a enclosure and do a backup once every few months as my computer is basically just for gaming and surfing the web, and if i were to work on a project i would be saving constantly to a usb flash drive anyway. But as for ssd's going bad it would take years for it to finally go bad, just like mechanical drives going bad because they have little arms that read and write off of it. but with newer software for ssd's they are trending to last longer by not using the same storage blocks repeatedly. Honestly now with TRIM and other software advances, SSD's will last 5-7 years (depending on how much you have saved onto it IE, its better to keep as far away from its limit as possible) which is about the same average time a mechanical drive lasts
 
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Okay thanks then I believe I'll be safe for a few years at least but I will be sure to save the main games I play alot on my SSD and store the ones that I play not as much on my HDD. :}
 
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This is partly right, SSD's have a limited amount of times of read and white cycles so this means in essence that the SSD will eventually just stop working on day, mechanical drives will far out last a single SSD, since they do not have a limit on how many times the read and write cycle can work. The reason that SSD's are recommended for the operating system and main programs (that will be used a lot and not be uninstalled) is because of the read/write cycle limitations. This is the same reason that the mechanical drives are still recommended for backing things up and storing things. Although my recommendation (take it or leave it) would be just to get a external 3 TB drive (115.00 on sale on Amazon) Seagate External Hard drive with Backup software (its on sale, usually around 140.00), and use this. Reason behind using an external instead of an internal is because if you ever go to re-install windows you can unplug it before you do so you don't accidently format it. Plus it can be moved from computer to computer and store everything you need on a go (since all newer computers (Windows Vista+) support NTFS format as a standard). Hope this clears up some things.
 
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