This game can wear SSDs with empty updates

[Vertibird]

You know, SSDs have limited lifespans. I have Samsung Evo M2 SSD which has 300 TBW (Terabites written) lifespan. You know, this game newly released a "DLC link update" to the game and it requires us to download 25gb for real nothingness. If you play this game regularly there will be lots of little updates like this requiring you to download 25gb of data again and again. So I decided to uninstall this game to save my SSD's health.
Any opinions?

[ATOMIC]

I would agree if updates were actually frequent.

[astreamuser]

If you worry about SSD wear you shouldn't be using SSDs at the first place. Most likely you'll get a new SSD long before you hit the limit of the current one. The game requires less than 0.5TBW each year and that's pushing it.

[Vertibird]

Originally posted by tasx:

If you worry about SSD wear you shouldn't be using SSDs at the first place. Most likely you'll get a new SSD long before you hit the limit of the current one. The game requires less than 0.5TBW each year and that's pushing it.

Thanks but no. I wont get tomography 20 times a year unless its necessary.

[Vertibird]

Originally posted by ATOMIC:

I would agree if updates were actually frequent.

Yeah, I dont mind real updates (like contents, dlcs etc, bug fixes etc) but 25gb of nothingness, it feels wrong man!

[Defiant Dan]

SSD have a Lifespan ? Dont know... they dont seem to addvertise this Fact big on the Box ;)
BUT
When you handicap your Fun cause you think " I better dont install/download/upgrade this to safe my SSD lifespan" you do something wrong i think....

I constantly download stuff, delete again cause i need space to download other Stuff, Steam and Broadband makes it so easy.

Even when you use up 1 tb each Month, the Drive would last 25 Years !!!!!!!!!!
Until then they will cost 5 $ from China

[Vertibird]

Thanks everyone! SSDs are more durable than I thought then, still I feel bad downloading 25gb of paperweight

[Dr. Wigglespank]

I built my current PC in the Fall of 2019, using a 500 GB Samsung 970 drive for the OS & programs, and a Sabrent 2 TB drive for games. I have dozens of games that are updated regularly, and more than a few have very large updates (I consider 10+ GB a large update). After 2.5 years, the drives are reporting 97% and 99% remaining life, respectively.

I'm not happy about the large updates to this game, either, and I agree that this latest update adds little that I find useful, but drive life seems like an odd hill to die on.

Edit: Didn't see that latest post from OP. Hope you reconsider playing a game you enjoy.

[astreamuser]

Originally posted by Vertibird:

Originally posted by ATOMIC:

I would agree if updates were actually frequent.

Yeah, I dont mind real updates (like contents, dlcs etc, bug fixes etc) but 25gb of nothingness, it feels wrong man! :presidente:

There's also the option to play the game in offline mode and update when a decent update rolls out.

[Janguhlang]

You should be fine lol... A normal person who works in an office setting uses upwards of 35-50GB of their SSD per day and their SSD lasts them in that setting of operating 8 hours a day not including what they have going on when they leave it will still lasts them upwards of 12 years. Hard drives are a lot more advanced than they used to be. I have never had a Hard Drive at least not an SSD ever give out on me and the longest I have used one was an off brand that I never heard of but listed itself as a decent write speed still less optimal than a Samsung or a Seagate but it lasted 5 years. Before I just bought a new PC and that hard drive would had been fine to include in my new build if I didn't opt for an M.2.

[ATOMIC]

Originally posted by tasx:

There's also the option to play the game in offline mode and update when a decent update rolls out.

Makes sense if you own a few games... if you own 200+ there's no time for this kind of micromanagement.

[TECHNOMANCER]

Originally posted by Hastro:

You should be fine lol... A normal person who works in an office setting uses upwards of 35-50GB of their SSD per day and their SSD lasts them in that setting of operating 8 hours a day not including what they have going on when they leave it will still lasts them upwards of 12 years. Hard drives are a lot more advanced than they used to be. I have never had a Hard Drive at least not an SSD ever give out on me and the longest I have used one was an off brand that I never heard of but listed itself as a decent write speed still less optimal than a Samsung or a Seagate but it lasted 5 years. Before I just bought a new PC and that hard drive would had been fine to include in my new build if I didn't opt for an M.2.

yup.

All this worry about SSD's.... my spindle drives in the 90's always lasted less than 3 years before they started to go out. I have an "ancient" SSD that is still kicking with under 3% failure rate over a decade after I got it. (It is a "torrent" drive.) These kids.... LOL

[Waldherz]

My Samsung 840 Evo finally started to give me trouble after what must be 8 years of use an 121 TB read/write total.

So uh...24GB here and there is nothing.

[Secret Squirrel]

Well, my SSD was bought in 2014 and tools estimate it is about 10% into its lifetime. At that rate, this SSD should last 80 more years.

Ok, yes, I am over simplifying. The SSD wouldn't really be usable if it was at its 50% mark. But still, if this SSD lasts another 5 years, then it doesn't owe me anything.

[DanthemanBoone]

If you are storing your game files on your SSD you are an Idiot.
Use a HDD to store game files and save you SSD for the operating system.
Frame speeds from game files stored on HDD (internal or external) play at exactly the same speed as those stored on the SSD.

[TECHNOMANCER]

Originally posted by DanthemanBoone:

If you are storing your game files on your SSD you are an Idiot.
Use a HDD to store game files and save you SSD for the operating system.
Frame speeds from game files stored on HDD (internal or external) play at exactly the same speed as those stored on the SSD.

If you believe this, you are an idiot.
ALL "modern" (less than 5 years old) will last many times longer than any spindle drive I have EVER seen. The "data" you believe is from 20 year old testing on Tom's Hardware and is STILL passed around like a Gospel or something... LOL

Samsung EVO of almost any generation will last longer than a spindle. But the newer ones will go on and on for over a decade, I'm positive.

As an experienced example, I have a Samsung 840 PRO I got over 8 years ago, it has said it was at "0% life" for over 6 years now. Never had a bad test result, 0% space lost of the 512gb. It was used as a 0-day torrent repeater for well over 5 years solid.