No, not going to happen any time soon. I was laughing my AO to this lol This technology even after that many years is still like in Alpha stage hahaha First I thought the only draw back of SSD is the times you write something on it. Okay not the greatest deal breaker to know it's days are numbered literally but now this http://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power So im sorry I heard just now about it but this is THE deal breaker to me. This is beyond stupid. I can never unpower my system for like few months if I go to another country but I have to keep it always turned on. Sorry but what if I do like the normal people who go abroad and I cut of my house from the power grid? Then bye bye precious games, files and stuff. Thank you but I'm staying into the past with my HDDs. My Win 8.1 boots from no power to ready to use desktop for about 12 seconds with WD Black, people! 12 seconds! Okay I'll wait 10-15 more seconds for GTA 5 to load... big deal.
I've been enjoying the vast improvements made by SSD's for a few years now, never had any real problems. I've left the computer off for various reasons for up to two weeks (possibly longer) in the past, and that was with older hardware than I'm running now. Unless you're literally leaving the country for months it's unlikely to be much of an issue. Then there's the fact that "normal" people don't generally leave their homes for months on end. Your loss I guess. PS: Would love to see a screen cap of your HDD booting into a usable Windows in 14 seconds. It'd make a lovely addition to this thread: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=399003 There's even a benchmark program listed for you.
They say the new SSD's use smaller manufacturing process that makes the things worse lol Old SSD might actually wast longer.
Doesnt work like that. Some ssds, very few, the nand chips will start 'discharging' and will drop a few bytes of data over a course of a long time. They do not just get erased completely if powered off by x amount of time all of the sudden. Secondly, it only affects a small amount of ssds.. I have had systems powered off for a couple of years and it still booted with no issues, recall it was a intel G2 ssd
So you wont buy an SSD that will have a large impact in multiple areas, because in theory you might up and leave the country for an unspecified length of time? Good stuff.
WOW. You are gullible. I have been running the same SSD for about 5 years. I have gone on MONTH long trips where the PC was never touched. Guess what? Everything was perfectly fine when I got back. You dont buy an SSD for games alone, you buy it for the OS too. Everything about it becomes faster. This site...jeezus
It's your life. Bit of a ridiculous thought process you have going on regarding this stuff, I'll say that much. Everything you've posted as a negative is a non-issue. You've pretty much admitted that you're not going to be away from your PC for any genuine length of time -- it'd take months at the least, and probably years before any issues arose, assuming they ever would. You're essentially discounting SSD's for no good reason.
Interesting but I don't believe 8.1 can boot from a completely powered down system in 12 seconds. Mine takes 70-75 seconds to be useable. I do have fast boot and hibernation disabled though. Still, even with fast boot, 12 seconds seems impossible from a HDD.
no ssd in 2015???? It's like having a virtual cancer which gonna become real in a moment... Seriously just get SSD, i have the MX100 and Corsair GT3 for 3 years, same performance no degree at all, all reliable , can't ever go back to HDD.
I had UEFI Fast Boot enabled and it still took longer than 14 seconds for me to boot into Windows. I even used Intel's caching **** that was introduced with the Z68 chipset, which does improve boot times. There is no possible way that a system with a mechanical drive is booting Windows 8.x in 14 seconds......
Wasn't the original article written about enterprise level ssds and not consumer level ssds? Anyways here goes: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2925...nt-lose-data-if-left-unplugged-after-all.html and http://www.itworld.com/article/2921...-your-ssd-if-you-leave-it-off-for-a-week.html
12 seconds to boot from a mechanical HDD :wanker: Also I've been running SSDs in all my computers now for the last 2-3 years and never had any issues of disappearing. Not only that but I have a clients computer that has an SSD and that thing is powered off for months on end due to them never using it, no issues with data retention.
