Is an SSD worth it?

[Jamendxman3]

@_cDub;325226

For things like laptops they are awesome, they can take the bumps and vibrations or whatever better than an HDD.

I’m not sure how heavy of a storage device user you are, but once you reach about 100TB (model dependant, some can last VERY long) of writing, it starts to break down and use reserve sectors, this is fine and won’t have to much of an impact. Once it runs out of those reserve sectors, kapoot.

I saw a chart of different models and how long they last, can’t find it now, but unless you are dealing with a freakish amount of writing and deleting there probably won’t be any issues. Also, no need to defragment. From what I read fragmentation has no impact.

Speaking of lifespan, I guess I better get a backup drive in case my HDD decides to die on me, and I lose my life’s work From what I’ve read, Intel makes some of the higher quality SSDs, but the posts I am reading are from 2012 :\