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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."
Oh wait, I have to read the article? Homey don't do that.
By the way, 700TB isn't all that much these days. Betcha I could do it in a week's worth of video editing.
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How is 700TB "endurance"? I copy near a TB of data from Backups at work almost daily. So 1-2 years (if that) is "endurance"? Screw that! Sounds more like modern SSD's suck hard and aren't designed to last past 1-2 years of work. I'll stick with traditional HD's until they figure out DRAM drives that don't need batteries or constant power.