How to fry an SSD

[Gadnoz_Seek (Retired! And happy!!)]

@RBO

@Gadnoz_Seek Terribly sorry for hijacking your thread matey

No problem what so ever!!

[bearFNF]

LOL, we all must be bored and looking for entertainment today.

How about deep fried turkey and SSD?

My mom’s specialty is Belgian Waffles. There is a process that MUST be followed. She only starts cooking them when you are standing there with a plate ready to eat. Don’t dawdle, timing is everything…

[Traian_Boldea]

@bearFNF

timing is everything…

hold my plate pls, I’ll get the chocolate

[RBO]

I see you boys are still at it

[ffk (Doctors Practice. Plumbers Perform.)]

@Gadnoz_Seek

Samsung 2TB for backup of music folders; when copying hundreds of Gb’s the little red guy is getting quit hot

I believe they thermal throttle to help protect themselves. It’s still a good idea to use a heat sink if you can.

@Gadnoz_Seek

How to fry a SSD??

For starters… Not leaving free space… it is good practice over provision, leave 10% as unformatted free space.

[S_Heeren (sehe)]

@mjw

Or fry an egg on a NUC with no fan.

This must be the dead-pan humor I’ve been hearing about

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

Groan

I’m pleased to say that I’m up and running cool now.

[maximasr]

We all use personal ssd/nvme’s which are built different than enterprise SSD’s, and 2 of the differences is how the ssd is overprovisioned and the endurance level of the device.
Check out how the ssd writes data, it is much different than how data is written to an hdd. SSD’s can only write data X amount of times to the same area before it can’t write to that area anymore. Also, check out “write amplification” on ssd. This is the primary reason why I think it’s not very smart for music servers to use ssd for caching. Cheap personal SSD’s are not overprovisioned for this kind of activity and will wear out the ssd in a much shorter period of time than with normal use. This is also why apple was having problems with their SSD’s failing when you purchase the 8G ram m1 macs, the paging (same type of activity the music servers do when caching) that was occurring on the ssd and had many ssd failures.
I have a dozen years working with 1 of the largest solid state/hdd manufacturers doing work with the largest enterprises in the world using solid state devices in their production servers.