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I am considering my first boot disk ssd. The price is right for the samsung 840 evo.

I will use it for mainly my win 8 and probably a couple of my more frequently played games. Everything else will go on my platters.

Could I count on it lasting me 5-7 years in theory? If it did take a crap on me, everything else should be recoverable once I get another boot disk running correct?
 
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3 to 5 is I think a reasonable expectation for a hard drive. Never count on it going past the manufacturer's warranty, and no one can answer honestly because ssd's have only been in wide use for a couple of years, and the technology is improving constantly. And given that technology improvement, will you want this drive in 7 years? Do you want my decade old 20 GB pata hdd? It shows many failures and is dead slow, but it "works"

And if it does take a crap on you it's likely gone, recovering data is far more difficult if not impossible on ssds then hdds
 
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If u running regular interval backup image of the disk then u can recover at times it fails... both SSD and HDD...

In fact i just get failure on my less than a year baracuda HDD... (in process on RMA right now) and the other one showing some SMART warning
(less than 3 years hdd), both are storage disk seldom used....

And my 2 year old corsair force 3 SSD still runs fine (not heavy usage, normal os disk, now running on laptop).......
There no guaranty HDD will last longer than SSD now days
 
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