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Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs
crookedvulture (1866146) writes "Last year, we kicked off an SSD endurance experiment to see how much data could be written to six consumer drives. One petabyte later, half of them are still going. Their performance hasn't really suffered, either. The casualties slowed down a little toward the very end, and they died in different ways. The Intel 335 Series and Kingston HyperX 3K provided plenty of warning of their imminent demise, though both still ended up completely unresponsive at the very end. The Samsung 840 Series, which uses more fragile TLC NAND, perished unexpectedly. It also suffered a rash of cell failures and multiple bouts of uncorrectable errors during its life. While the sample size is far too small to draw any definitive conclusions, all six SSDs exceeded their rated lifespans by hundreds of terabytes. The fact that all of them wrote over 700TB is a testament to the endurance of modern SSDs."
Rejoice then, you still have 75 SSDs!
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"I've got 5 and all are well. 1 Intel, 2 Samsung and 1 Critical. "
That apparently doesn't prevent you from dropping bits, though. 1+2+1=4.
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Yes, they are sooo reliable, every single SDD I've bought has been dead within 3 months.
A happy OCZ customer, I take it?
Amen to this, I STUPIDLY bought a REFURBISHED OCZ drive which, coincidentally failed shortly after OCZ announced bankrupcy. The other drive I bought was a Corsair that, like it's OCZ bretheren died three weeks after put into service. The speed is wonderful but the life is pathetic. Despite this, I have a Kingston and a Samsung which are both going strong so I can confidently state that HALF OF ALL SSDs FAIL AFTER THREE WEEKS, THE OTHER RUN FOREVER!
Perhaps I need to work on my sample set and my over-use of capital letters.
"I don't recall the brand of the fourth"
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There you go again.
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We seem to have the beginning of a trend here - AC's don't have very good luck with SSD's.
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Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
No, I logged in and I've still got Outlook 2007.
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