Good Defrager

[Triple_Se7en]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: nleksan
If you want to maximize the life of yourHDD, turn off tthe power saving feature that spins down the drives after x amount of time. The most stressful thing for a modern drive is the spinup period.


Yes, every time you spin up the disk the heads has to land on the flying platters, and that causes some impacts (for a short period of time) at landing.


I used to hear the disk and/or fan fire-up, plus see the rapid blinking light with my Dell Windows XP. But with Dell Windows 8, I hear/see nothing when the monitor comes on and the processor comes out of sleep mode.

This is a almost new computer that I basically only use for 4-6 hrs of web surfing each day. Heck, my defrag and optimization takes 6 min and 6 sec.

 

[Vikas]

I thought SSD has a limit on how many writes you con do to it.

 

[martinq]

Originally Posted By: Vikas
I thought SSD has a limit on how many writes you con do to it.

They do but it's unlikely that a typical user will encounter it. Performance can also degrade with time depending on the model.

Make sure you're running a compatible operating system to get the most of it.



This endurance test had just crossed the 500TB mark:
http://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-500tb-update

"these results need to be put into context. 500TB works out to 140GB of writes per day for 10 years. That's an insane amount even for power users, and it far exceeds the endurance specifications of our candidates."