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Old December 17th 18, 03:33 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default SSD and surveillance camera?

On 12/16/2018 12:14 PM, Paul wrote:
joe wrote:
On 12/16/2018 5:29 AM, mike wrote:


Thanks, but it's more than twice the cost of the SSD I'm trying to
lighten the load on.


It seems you are trying to lighten the load on the SSD when it may not
be necessary.

Given how much you plan to write to the SSD, how soon do you expect it
to fail?


Well, that's the whole point of this. I don't PLAN to write much at all.
It's all the other stuff that writes that I never
had to worry about before.
One of the serious offenders is Comodo virus scans.
I'd assumed that those were all reads, but it appears
that Comodo does a boatload of writes during the process.

Even if the SSD is only rated for 50 TBW, writing 65GB/yr will take
forever to wear it out.

Writing 650 TB/year will take 75 years to wear it out.

You'd have to find the specs for the SSD you are using, but it is
likely wearing it out by storing lots little files is unlikely.


It's a Samsung EVO 850 500GB drive.
Power on hours is 558.
Already had 623GB of host writes over two months or so.
That's almost all installs and updates and background processes. I've
hardly USED the machine at all.
Those numbers appear inconsistent, but that's what SMART says.
I'm only using 100GB of it.

Due to variances in write amplification, writing small files
may cause more wear life than if an equivalent amount of
"bulk" storage was used. Storing a single gigabyte file on
an SSD, is easier on it than storing a million 1KB files.
The "percent life remaining" indicator in SMART, will
tick down faster in the second case.

The TBW rating of a drive, is only a guideline and might well
be a rating based on "nice file storage" of the big files.

Doing occasional TRIM commands, may help reduce the amount
of housekeeping the drive is doing internally when it's
getting full, or the drive thinks that "most sectors
contain used information". TRIM tells the drive exactly
which clusters don't need to be represented in Flash.

*******

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...7-a76c0b450818


That site confirms that there are consequences to blindly moving stuff.



Â*Â* "To change the location of the Internet Temp folder, follow the
steps given below.

Â*Â*Â* Note: That Internet Explorer moves cookies to the new folder and
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* the old folder is removed. Additionally, the following message
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* is displayed when you attempt to move the Temporary Internet
Files folder:

Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* Warning: Moving the location of your Temporary Internet Files
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* folder will delete all your subscription data.

Â*Â*Â* 1. Create a new folder to store the files. For example, if you want to
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* store the files in a folder named Ietemp on drive D, create the
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* following folder:

Â*Â*Â* D:\Ietemp

Â*Â*Â* For information about how to create a folder, click Start, click
Help, click the Index tab, type new folder, and then double-click the
"New Folders" topic.

Â*Â*Â* 1. Start Internet Explorer.
Â*Â*Â* 2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
Â*Â*Â* 3. On the General tab, click Settings.
Â*Â*Â* 4. Click Move Folder.
Â*Â*Â* 5. Click the folder you created in Step 1.
Â*Â*Â* 6. Click OK, click OK, and then click OK again.
Â*Â*Â* 7. Restart your computer
Â*Â* "

For storage, you can set up a small RAM drive.

The free version of this one, is limited to 1GB in size.
Which is sufficient for an IE temp.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-a...ftware/ramdisk

You don't need it to be persistent. It can be set up to
load an "empty" image of a file system at start. (So the
freshly created RAMDrive at boot will have a drive letter,
before the rubber hits the road.)

The only trick is, dealing with cases where it didn't
start in time perhaps, and then there is no D: when the
rest of the OS was expecting such.

That one behaves well most of the time. However, a Windows 10
OS upgrade, requires the user to go into Programs and Features
and "repair" the RAMDisk install for it to work again. (I have
the paid version of that program.)

Â*Â* Paul

Thanks for the inputs, but every solution seems to evoke a cascade of
other issues...and maintenance nightmares.
I got some tutoring on putting camera images into a
picturebox. That may be the best long term solution.
For now, I pulled a tablet outa the junkbox and am using that as the
display.

I got excited because I had some SSD's and decided to
combine that journey with the windows 10 journey.
The more I look, the more disappointed I become.
The graph of my interest level vs time has a decidedly
negative slope.
I have learned a lot. That's a good thing.

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Old December 17th 18, 03:42 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Default SSD and surveillance camera?

In article , mike
wrote:

Even if the SSD is only rated for 50 TBW, writing 65GB/yr will take
forever to wear it out.

Writing 650 TB/year will take 75 years to wear it out.

You'd have to find the specs for the SSD you are using, but it is
likely wearing it out by storing lots little files is unlikely.


It's a Samsung EVO 850 500GB drive.
Power on hours is 558.
Already had 623GB of host writes over two months or so.
That's almost all installs and updates and background processes. I've
hardly USED the machine at all.
Those numbers appear inconsistent, but that's what SMART says.
I'm only using 100GB of it.


it has *plenty* of life left.
 




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