Few useful tips how to increase the lifespan of an SSD

Few useful tips how to increase the lifespan of an SSD

1. Do not defragment your SSD. SSD does not suffer performance loss caused by fragmentation.  Defragmenting it, will only fatigue it, but it will not increase it’s performance. You sacrifice it’s life for nothing in return. Slowing down on an SSD, means the SSD is wearing out, and it needs wear leveling. Slowing down of an SSD is caused down, because of Error correction code being used, to try to correct not fully or not properly read data, after multiple retries to make a good read. Self Healing and wear leveling will fix this for some number of times, but ultimately, the SSD will die.

2. Use 2 drives on your computer. Use the SSD as first drive on your PC, to benefit the OS and your programs, by the speed of the SSD, and normal HDD as second drive, and move the paging file, hibernation file, media libraries, document libraries, downloads, torrents, media files, genral storage – photos, music, movies, documents, misc downloads, onto the HDD. Windows uses all that stuff in the background, so you can move the bulk of activities, from the SSD to the HDD. This will reduce the load onto the SSD, increasing it’s lifespan.

3. buy high quality model SSD, from reputable manufacturer, which has reputation for offering quality products on the market. High quality products, are made using high grade materials, high-end technologies, which assure long and reliable work.

4. Buy SLC SSD. This is the most durable type of SSD on the market.

5.Buy Self Healing SSD – this type of SSD’s can actually fix some damage, repairing itself back to good working condition, for some number of times. This increases it’s usable lifetime.

6. Allow the drive to make it’s wear leveling cycles. This means that the drives monitors how worn is a given chip and if it is worn beyond a certain threshold, it removes all data, to a spare chip, and removes the worn out chip from service. The spare chip is brand new, unused until now, so the chip comes with it’s full health into service.