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kicks_your_arse t1_iuhtodq wrote

Reply to comment by ironshadowy in Would a HDD be beneficial for storing games. Would booting games from a HDD only use my processor? Read desc for more by ironshadowy

I have been running a 250 gb samsung 840 EVO for like nearly 10 years. According to magician ithas 54.7 TB written to it so far and is still classed as 'Good'.

There's nothing to worry about, you'll never wear it to the point you need to be concerned. Not without trying very hard.

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ironshadowy OP t1_iuhus84 wrote

What about m.2 NvME drives?

Looking online, your drive seems to be a SATA one. Would NvME drives have a shorter life span due to their size

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kicks_your_arse t1_iuhv55t wrote

Fair point, not quite sure about that. Just a comment that it was my OS drive and I always ran my favourite games from it so it got a fair bit of regular wear. I know there's definitely long term limits but I think as consumers we really shouldn't even be thinking about wear cycles and limits. Your case sounds unusual and I think you can mostly be safe in the assumption that the disk will last the life of the device.

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ironshadowy OP t1_iuhvo2n wrote

Just a similar question. If i did run games off a HDD, would it effectively use the ssd less? All i want to know is if the read/ writes of the game is not going towards the ssd.

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Cyphonism t1_iuhy8xv wrote

That would indeed save wear and tear on your SSD.

For general SSD use, reading from them causes virtually no wear and tear. Writing causes some wear and tear, but at a very slow rate as long as the drive is not very full. Keeping at least 10 percent free is good, more if you can spare it.

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ironshadowy OP t1_iuhyhiv wrote

Ah ok. So my ssd doesnt have storage for games but even though little wear and tear is seen with games on ssds, ill mainly stick to HDDs for peace of mind. Thanks for your help, really appreciate it

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pseudopad t1_iuk1nlb wrote

Life spans don't drop with capacity

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ironshadowy OP t1_iuk256r wrote

I dont mean the capacity, i mean the actual size of an m.2 ssd. They are considerably smaller than SATA ssds

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