hi, to anyone that knows much about ssd drives id like to ask a question. how long would this ssd last in my ps3.

http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/vtx3-25sat3-vertex-60gb-sata3-p-53286.html?sort=2a

does ps3 use the hardrive alot, or will it last a long time. also is this a good ssd. thanks

that SSD would be adequate but there is no telling how long any hard drive will last at any time in any system.

This drive it overkill... It costs more for the SATA 3 speeds, but the PS3 only has a SATA 1 controller...

I bought http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/OCZ-Agility-3-60GB-2-5-SATA3-SSD-AGT3-25SAT3-60G-/290625560756?pt=AU_Components&hash=item43aaa220b4#ht_746wt_913 for my PS3...

it's a 60GB OCZ Agility 2... It has SATA 2 which will max out the PS3's data transfer rate, rather than falling under like a SATA 1 would... If it's only for the PS3, then you only need SATA II, but you if plan on using it in a PC or laptop in the near future (maybe even the PS4, maybe?) the go for the SATA III

Now to answer your question... SSDs are NAND flash, like a USB flash drive... They only have 10,000 write cycles (that means data can only be written over 10,000 times) until that block is disabled... Depending on what you do with your PS3 will lengthen or shorten the SSDs life... Downloading big demos, etc... Installing and deleting game installs, etc... They will shorten it's life... HDD cache intensive games will shorten it too... But remember that it's 10,000 write cycles. That means that if you almost filled your SSD with games and only left a small amount for caching, save files,etc... Then it would eat through that small chunk pretty quick... So keep only a few games on there that you play regularly and leave a bit (or else when your 'cache' gets small, just delete a game to give it more room)

The other thing to note it that drive you linked has a 3 year warranty...

Hope this helps and feel free to ask more questions if you want...


EDIT: I was wrong, the very old SSDs had 10,000 write cycles, newer ones have 100,000s to millions...

I own 5 SSD's and none have died since I moved from platters. It takes millions of writes to the same sector for that sector to go bad. If you are shooting for high reliability go with an intel SSD as they have the best track record, but are the most expensive. The OCZ and Corisair drives I have all work great and cost less per GB.

From my research if you do get a bad drive it fails in the first few months so make sure your warrenty is at least a year, OCZ and Corisair both have good replacment plans from what Ive read (Ive never actually had to use them).

Millions? From my understanding it was about 10,000? or was that just the first gen SSDs?

Stupid double posting.......!

10,000'ish applies to "flash drives". Not ssd drives there is a differance. But I still side with the fact this game alone trashes the disks too much, that it will extremly short the life of a ssd drive.

This game is worse then leaving your swap partion or page file on a ssd drive.

Yeah, I just had a quick search about write cycles for SSDs... That's awesome! I love my SSD even more now, thanks!

From wikipedia:
Flash-based SSDs have a limited number of writes (1-5 million or more) over the life of the drive. Software controllers manage this limitation in such a way that drives can last for many decades before failure.[71][72][73][74] SSDs based on DRAM do not have a limited number of writes.

Although in an other language they separate them further into two types, one handling only thousands and the other a few million write cycles.

yeh im getting this one, i was going for good read write speed instead of worrying if it was sata 1 2 or 3. 3 yr warranty will be helpful and for 129 bucks im not really that worried.

as a bonus i own a laptop =]