Do M.2 SSD's deteriorate fast?

[Bvllzye]

I want to buy two 1TB m.2 drives to replace a HDD and a sata SSD but i hear they arent as durable. idk nothin

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

No, as far as I'm aware. Just make sure you but the quality M.2 SSDs that come with thermal paste, or if your Motherboard contains an M.2 shield which has a thermal paste as well, then you should be fine. I would also recommend installing the SSD on the farthest slot away from the CPU area, as it tends to get hot there.

[iceman1980]

Originally posted by iTz Bullz i:

I want to buy two 1TB m.2 drives to replace a HDD and a sata SSD but i hear they arent as durable. idk nothin

It depends on how you actually use them. Heavy amounts of small reads and writes will deteriorate the drive quite quickly. In other words using them for high IOP tasks would not be recommended. In order words if you run it at 100% 99% of the time in for example a virtual machine heavy environment with overcommiting and other features the drive will deteriorate fast.

M.2 SSDs will also thermal throttle after a certain period, the cooling they're given even especially for PCI-E 4.0 drives just doesn't cut it. They get hot enough to burn you.

[Zekiran]

Just don't forget to back up your info on other drives or burn to disk when it's data that won't need changing.

Rescuing stuff off a dead hdd is easy.

Rescuing anything off an ssd... not... so much at all, in fact.

[iceman1980]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Just don't forget to back up your info on other drives or burn to disk when it's data that won't need changing.

Rescuing stuff off a dead hdd is easy.

Rescuing anything off an ssd... not... so much at all, in fact.

Yeah because entire datablocks die.

[Bvllzye]

Originally posted by Jinn-Gon Qui:

No, as far as I'm aware. Just make sure you but the quality M.2 SSDs that come with thermal paste, or if your Motherboard contains an M.2 shield which has a thermal paste as well, then you should be fine. I would also recommend installing the SSD on the farthest slot away from the CPU area, as it tends to get hot there.

im going to use both m.2 slots dang why would they put them in the hottest areas 😔

[Jinn-Gon Qui]

Originally posted by iTz Bullz i:

Originally posted by Jinn-Gon Qui:

No, as far as I'm aware. Just make sure you but the quality M.2 SSDs that come with thermal paste, or if your Motherboard contains an M.2 shield which has a thermal paste as well, then you should be fine. I would also recommend installing the SSD on the farthest slot away from the CPU area, as it tends to get hot there.

im going to use both m.2 slots dang why would they put them in the hottest areas 😔

Then use the SSD where you have your OS installed in the farthest slot. That way at least your OS won't be affected in some way.

[Bvllzye]

Originally posted by MikeBob2013:

Originally posted by iTz Bullz i:

I want to buy two 1TB m.2 drives to replace a HDD and a sata SSD but i hear they arent as durable. idk nothin

I'm using a Samsung 960 EVO 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME SSD in my machine, which I built in March of 2017 (and I know there are newer/better SSDs available these days, but this is what my budget allowed for at the time).

It supposedly has a rated 'lifetime' of 400 Terabytes, and in 32 months I've written 15.9TB to it (and I pretty much live on my computer: I'm disabled and I live alone, and I play my games, pay all my bills, read and watch the news, stream videos and TV, and do all my shopping, etc, on this bad boy).

Anyway, at a rate of just under .5TB per month, with a little over 384 Terabytes to go, I figure I've got about sixty five more *years* to go. I'm not too worried about having to replace it, as I'll probably be dead and buried long before then.

cool cool, i guess i always focus on negative reviews when im about to buy something so those stick to my head. Your SSd is still fast i hope it hasnt dropped speed or anything.

[videogames10]

Originally posted by iTz Bullz i:

Do M.2 SSD's deteriorate fast?

They're made out of cheese so they should last a couple of weeks if you keep them cool. The last thing you want is melted cheese on your motherboard and the bottom of your PC case. If that does happen, you can use corn tortilla chips to clean them up.