Official SSD Solid State Drive and Blender Review Thread: Please Contribute

I just got a Kingston SSD. My Motherboard is from a few years back, it’s on SATA2, not 3, so I can’t experience the fastest speed.

So far with the files on the same SSD as the Blender app:
Scultping = No Effect
Importing Heavy .Obj = MUCH MUCH MUCH Faster, I can view around them with nearly no lag too.

I thought I heard before that the solid state memory in some of the devices may start to degrade after a certain number of read/write operations, and that the memory, while a lot faster, is still a bit behind traditional HD memory in terms of quality and longevity.

Is this still true or have there actually been users who have been able to get years of heavy use without problems out of the drives?

As far as I know, having a faster HD only impacts the loading times. System performance as well as opening files and applications benefit from a faster write & read speed. However once the application and data are loaded to the ram it doesn’t have any effect of course. Until the operation includes reading from or writing to a disk you won’t get any performance increase.

Time really depends on the frequency of access. FLASH memory devices are usually only good for so many write operations (old days that would be ~100,000) per cell. I’m just saying longevity is more a function of how used it is, you could potentially make it defunct under a year if you setup a program to constantly write it for the entire year.

Thank you, my drive has an in store guarantee of 4 years. I’m not storing any files on it.

Users who actually have a solid state drive are welcome to contribute hard evidence too.

I just bought a small 32gb SSD to run Blenderbuntu, but have never owned one before, so can’t say
how long they last.

But here’s an article at Tom’s Hardware from April this year.

As long as the drive has TRIM support it should last just as long as a traditional hard drive would be expected to with daily use.

The benefits within Blender will be minimal with an SSD. I use mine mostly for storing applications that tend to take a while to start (SoftImage, Photoshop, etc.) while I keep all of my games and other files on a 2TB standard drive.

About excess writing, running on Windows 7, I disabled system recover, hibernation etc everything that has windows writing large files to the C:.
Also set the paging / virtual memory to my other 2 HDDs instead of C:, the system isn’t using my C: SSD to save anything.

Maybe that will help, idk.