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I think they refer to the TB Written versus the published limit of each model.

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Now you've all got me curious. How are you checking your SSD drive wear? Are you using one of the utilities advertised on google, or is there a way to check through Windows itself?

 

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Now you've all got me curious. How are you checking your SSD drive wear? Are you using one of the utilities advertised on google, or is there a way to check through Windows itself?

I'm just using the included Samsung Magician SW.

It shows TBW on the first page.

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As so many has already shown and told about a SSD withstanding of constant writing, it is amazing what such technology has done to gaming and overall computing in last 5 years.

 

Like the first good SSD were Intel ones, around 32-64GB drives and you had writing amounts with 5GB every day for about 3-4 years. Even then it was not a worry for normal usage.

 

But now we are so another level in that tech that we can just enjoy from all the speed benefits we can have. Or actually suffer as so many game developer gets lazy and just go and don't optimize the games as now they have more I/O and more processing power and more all things so they can just throw the more raw data and put older computers on knees.

 

I just made a 3D card update after 2-3 years and everything is just so much faster. The older card was a 200€ card and could run almost every latest game in maximum graphics except few titles (like ARMA 3 or latest Crysis) but titles like DCS 2.0 was running 4K with almost all set max at nice 35-40 FPS.

 

Now I am about to install that card to this computer and expect to see a nice improved performance increase. As I was testing that card first on 7 year old computer with AMD Athlon II X640 (4 core 3Ghz CPU) with 6GB RAM that was running a 170€ 3D card almost all titles very nicely and using the new card put every title to run in maximum performance without dropping FPS below 40. It was just amazing what a such old CPU can do with a 667Mhz DDR3 6GB RAM :D

 

And why so? The motherboard is like a 10 years old. Runs still a DCS very nicely on Full HD about 40-50FPS.

 

The HDD was a problem and SSD upgrade was huge for games.

 

So today just upgrading SSD and 3D is huge thing.

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Not using a SSD is a Gamers-Crime :megalol:

 

The result is so dramatic that when I got my 1st SSD with my Apple Laptop that I exchanged each and every OS drive in my household with 850 Pro's shortly after they emerged. What a BIG difference that made to ANY computer I personally own and I have retrofitted meanwhile a few dozen PC's with 850Pro's in households ( sister, nephew etc etc. ) and office PC's from customers.

They all love it, no exception, and they all think it was worth the money spent.

 

Especially older PC's come to new life again, C2D + SSD is good enough to surf the net and such.

i7-1st-Gen + SSD is like a new Office PC ( added RAM to a total of 8GB for those as minimum as well )

 

Games just benefit HUGE from it and for DCS it should be labeled "mandatory".

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I just checked Samsung website and the data you provided is correct, limit is 75TBW for the 250GB version 850 EVO.

 

But, that's hardly a realistic figure. When they tested the first gen TLC drives, they have written 700+ TB before the first errors started appearing.

 

https://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178/10/hardwareinfo-tests-lifespan-of-samsung-ssd-840-250gb-tlc-ssd-updated-with-final-conclusion-final-update-20-6-2013


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The loading times are only large for me the first time I boot DCS, after that it just loads within 10 seconds or less. I mean missions and everything.

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does it help if I move the page file to my other hdd?

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does it help if I move the page file to my other hdd?

Don't do that.

If DCS exceeds your amount of RAM Windows will swap to the page file.

You will want that to be as fast as possible, thus on the SSD.

 

If you are not exceeding your RAM the page file will just be there, but not be written to, thus no wear.

 

My example of wear earlier includes having my page file on the same SSD.

so again, it should be no problem at all.

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