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.