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Will DCS World installed on an SSD wear the drive? Or does it just read?

 

I have an 850 evo and would like to know if its gonna wear by playing dcs on it.

 

 

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Even if DCS wrote to the drive frequently while you played, which it doesn't, SSD's don't wear out nearly as fast as you probably think. It would take many years of major write operations to wear out a modern SSD.

 

Don't worry about wearing out your SSD and a DCS installation would not be a significant contributor, even if drive writes were a legitimate concern.

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Hi, thanks.

 

My ssd has 75 TB lifetime, i had it for 6 months with no games on it and it wrote 0.8TB already, I dont even do a lot of downloads.

 

So that was why I was concerned. I always heard about not putting games on an ssd :(

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If wearing out drives is a problem for you, I'd suggest you place any important data elsewhere, and wear out that sucker doing what it is supposed to do. What else were SSDs invented for if it wasn't DCS World!

 

By the time you wear it out, the replacement will be as cheap as chips.

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After 2 years HEAVY usage I am down to 98% health on 1 drive ( used to be my OS SSD and now is DCS SSD ) and 99% remaining on my 2nd 850Pro which is now my OS SSD to balance usage.

 

the 98% has 21TB written...after 2 years daily usage...and I bet I push it more than you do, along with VMware and other "heavy" tasks that do write a lot, like downloading Linux and WIndows Images of roughly 4GB each many times a month, copying stuff etc etc..

 

DCS will not ruin your SSD, RELAX :thumbup:

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I just checked Samsung website and the data you provided is correct, limit is 75TBW for the 250GB version 850 EVO.

 

 

Get a Pro version next time.

 

From my post above, 20TB TBW on a 256GB-850-Pro is 2% off, whereas for the EVO modell this is more than 25% OFF.

 

the Pro as you can see is over 10x better in TBW allowed before failure is imminent and also Samsung will not cover any warranty if the TBW is reached

 

Screw the Evo pal, next time pay 30€ more and get the right SSD

 

 

 

THE ONLY reason why I use an 840 Evo is that I got 4 of them for free, that easy. It holds the least games I play

 

 

edit* samsung says 150TBW for 850pro-256GB.....I now wonder where the 98% health come from...LoL

 

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Server versions are SAS based and you will not be able to connect them unless you pay for an Raid-On-Chip adapter card that has SAS connectors.

 

Those SSD's are easily as costly as 2 Titans..or 4 or 8 Titans !!!!

 

Samsung made new Server SSD's that sell for 400 round about, which is a very good price but you still need an SAS controller. SOME X99 boards have them onboard as LSI ( LSI belongs to Intel ) Adapters and 2-channels usually. The smalles Adapter sells for about 4-500€ without cables and Battery...add another 100-200 for that !

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I just checked Samsung website and the data you provided is correct, limit is 75TBW for the 250GB version 850 EVO.

 

 

Get a Pro version next time.

 

From my post above, 20TB TBW on a 256GB-850-Pro is 2% off, whereas for the EVO modell this is more than 25% OFF.

 

the Pro as you can see is over 10x better in TBW allowed before failure is imminent and also Samsung will not cover any warranty if the TBW is reached

 

Screw the Evo pal, next time pay 30€ more and get the right SSD

 

 

 

THE ONLY reason why I use an 840 Evo is that I got 4 of them for free, that easy. It holds the least games I play

 

 

edit* samsung says 150TBW for 850pro-256GB.....I now wonder where the 98% health come from...LoL

 

BACH TO 15k 3.5" HDD's !!! LOL

 

 

I dont think thats gonna happen, SSDs here cost too much, in fact it was a big effort to buy this evo.

 

 

On a different post I made, Wader8 just wrote this:

 

...one of the major things that hammers the I/O is the replay tracking, which does a ton of writes on default C: drive.

 

That drive could be the ssd if I change :D

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Will DCS World installed on an SSD wear the drive? Or does it just read?

 

I have an 850 evo and would like to know if its gonna wear by playing dcs on it.

 

FWIW:

I have a 120 GB 850 Pro SSD.

It has Windows 7 and release DCS installed since I bought it in October 2014.

 

It has been filled to the brim most of the time and has to this date reached ~12 TBW.

Even if it was an Evo, I would still have around 84 % lifetime left on it.

 

Or, to put it like this:

With the current speed of wear, I would have around 18 years of total lifetime in it, which means 15 years remaining from now, if it was an Evo.

 

I don't think you should have much to worry about.

 

One thing though, make sure you switch off any type of defragmenting on your SSD.

It has no use on an SSD, and only increases wear on it.

But if you run the Samsung Magician SW and follow the recommendations in it, you should be all fine.

 

Edit:

I should mention, that I have all storage data on a separate HDD.

Downloads, documents, photos etc.


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I dont think thats gonna happen, SSDs here cost too much, in fact it was a big effort to buy this evo.

 

 

On a different post I made, Wader8 just wrote this:

 

 

 

That drive could be the ssd if I change :D

 

 

Heavy I/O ??????????????

 

THAT IS E X A C T L Y what SSD's are for !!!!!!!!

 

You dont buy a Porsche and then take the 2CV from Munich to Frankfurt cause you are worried about gas consumption and tyre wear & tear on your 911 , or would you ?

 

By all means, use that SSD wherever heavy I/O takes place !

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Heavy I/O ??????????????

 

THAT IS E X A C T L Y what SSD's are for !!!!!!!!

 

You dont buy a Porsche and then take the 2CV from Munich to Frankfurt cause you are worried about gas consumption and tyre wear & tear on your 911 , or would you ?

 

By all means, use that SSD wherever heavy I/O takes place !

 

I think the point was the tons of writes not the heavy i/o

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tons of writes = lots of "I"

 

The faster you can write to a medium the less time slices that process occupies from your available slices = better, more optimized.

 

edit: since no "I" happens without verification it always drags the same amount of small "O"'s behind. There you have heavy I/O


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I dont wanna hurt my baby :cry:

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You should put DCS on the SSD, damn the cost. The difference it makes in loading is incredible.

 

Besides, the wear is not significant. I'm running a 850 EVO too I think and I'm around ~ 1 TB over a year ( or more I can't recall when I bought it).

 

Set up temporary stuff and environment to a normal HDD, hell I even linked my user directory to the HDD (although that was a bit of a bitch to do) and that should reduce the amount of load. Installing random stuff to the HDD and only putting the important and power hungry stuff on the SSD can also help.

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My new PC has the samsung 960 evo m.2 500gb. I also went and looked up a few things about the drive.

 

"3,000 program/erase cycles. But granted, as drastic as that sounds, it's all relative as this lifespan will very likely last longer than any mechanical HDD. Drive wearing protection and careful usage will help you out greatly. With an SSD filled normally and very heavy writing/usage of say 10 GBs data each day 365 days a year, you'd be looking at roughly 22 full SSD write cycles per year, out of the 3,000 (worst case scenario) available. However, all calculations on this matter are debatable and theoretical as usage differs and even things like how much free space you leave on your SSD can affect the drive."

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thanks for all the kind replies. I guess my biggest concern comes from living in a third world place, where getting or replacing one of these stuff is a real effort.

 

Also, not knowing enough about SSDs. I did the basics of "SSD protection manual" like activating trim, ahci, no restore, no defragmentation. But still using pagefile and other stuff that is recommended but not proved.

 

So all of this makes me wonder about wear too.

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thanks for all the kind replies. I guess my biggest concern comes from living in a third world place, where getting or replacing one of these stuff is a real effort.

 

Also, not knowing enough about SSDs. I did the basics of "SSD protection manual" like activating trim, ahci, no restore, no defragmentation. But still using pagefile and other stuff that is recommended but not proved.

 

So all of this makes me wonder about wear too.

 

You can use Restore and PageFile on SSD without any hesitation. You even can have Temp folder in there.

 

With current SSD tech - next time you start looking for new one will be the day when your existing SSD become incompatible with your brand-new liquid palladium cooled motherboard for new 1600 core processor. :)

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Now you've all got me curious. How are you checking your SSD drive wear? Are you using one of the utilities advertised on google, or is there a way to check through Windows itself?

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