7 month update: No problems detected with the SSD.
Trying SSD on BI
- Thread starter tigerwillow1
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CrazyAsYou
Getting comfortable
FYI - I ran SATA 250GB Samsung SSD (860 EVO) as my main BI recordings new folder with 6 cams (~40mbits/sec) for about 6 months (on 90% full BI moved recordings a spinning rust 4TB drive) over the ~6-month period of 24/7 recording the drive went from 3% wear to 35% wear (as shown by the disks SMART values) - As I recall the full 250GB drive was getting overwritten about once every 36-40hours.
I didn't care about the drive so it was a nice test to understand how BI would wear an SDD, the playback and seek for recordings held in the SSD over the last 36 hours was very nice vs spinning rust but at the given wear rate I doubt the drive would have lasted much more than ~8-12months.
I didn't care about the drive so it was a nice test to understand how BI would wear an SDD, the playback and seek for recordings held in the SSD over the last 36 hours was very nice vs spinning rust but at the given wear rate I doubt the drive would have lasted much more than ~8-12months.
CrazyAsYou
Getting comfortable
Worth adding to the above, most SSD disks come with details about there expected wear given X amount TB of disk writes per year, the larger the SSD disk and lower the writes the longer the SSD will last. If you know your daily/weekly/monthly BI recording/disk write sizes, you can easily calculate yearly write total and calculate from there how long an SSD might last.
I pulled the SMART values from the 4TB SSD. I don't see a direct readout for wear percentage. Maybe that has to be calculated from the various raw numbers? CrystalDiskInfo does say the health status, which it also calls Remaining Life is is 86%. The Media And Data Integrity Error count is zero, and the amount of data written is 322,600 GB, or 322.6 TB, 80.5 times more than the size of the SSD.
djborden
Getting the hang of it
- Jul 19, 2017
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I have been running Samsung SSDs in my Blue Iris machines for years and have not had a failure. Their endurance is quite good. I have an 860 Evo that has been powered on for approx 6 years, non stop and has had 470TB written to it and the app still reports the drive is good with no issues.
Put a used 1.6 TB Intel P4610 series SSD in my BI box back in '21. Currently shows 98% drive life remaining with lifetime writes at 295,316 GB. 100% spare, no warnings.