You may be aware that Win 8/8.1 offers Fast Startup, which is a type of hybrid hibernate that writes large files to the SSD whenever the system is shut down and allows the system to start back up in 10 - 20 seconds. A side effect from this benefit, due to the large page file written during shutdown is I write to my SSD ~27GB per day, or nearly 7TB per year. Initially this freaked me out because it made me think I would quickly kill me SSD. However...
I have a 256GB SSD. Based on multiple SSD torture tests I've seen on the web it looks like the SSDs of today can do 2K - 3K writes before dying... so my math says 256GB x 2000 writes = 512TB before the SSD craps out. Following this logic, 512TB / 7TB annual writes = 73 years before SSD failure (due to write capacity). Does this sound about right? Even 1/2 or 1/3 that capacity and the SSD will well out-live the system's practical life.
In summary, it is my belief that even 27GB or 50GB per day SSD writes should be of no concern to me relative to SSD longevity. Am I making any errant assumptions here? Or does my logic hold?
I have a 256GB SSD. Based on multiple SSD torture tests I've seen on the web it looks like the SSDs of today can do 2K - 3K writes before dying... so my math says 256GB x 2000 writes = 512TB before the SSD craps out. Following this logic, 512TB / 7TB annual writes = 73 years before SSD failure (due to write capacity). Does this sound about right? Even 1/2 or 1/3 that capacity and the SSD will well out-live the system's practical life.
In summary, it is my belief that even 27GB or 50GB per day SSD writes should be of no concern to me relative to SSD longevity. Am I making any errant assumptions here? Or does my logic hold?
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