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> Inferior endurance is the "dirty secret" of the consumer-level SSD industry. You and I know better, but the average consumer doesn't pay attention to write en
by formerly_proven 6y ago
> Inferior endurance is the "dirty secret" of the consumer-level SSD industry. You and I know better, but the average consumer doesn't pay attention to write endurance or under-provisioning.
Besides Sandforce SSDs I've never have had any SSD fail, including cheap SSDs with 300+ drive writes, which is an insane workload for anything consumer (in my case, being used as a scratch disk) -- you are literally writing dozens of terabytes to an SSD that only holds twohundred GB or so.
None of my normal-use SSDs approach any amount of wear like this, and despite some being used daily for almost ten years, they generally have less than 50 drive writes.
So I really don't see why any FUD is warranted here.
- vetinari 6y agoI did, it was Intel 330. It was in a machine running Ubuntu and manifested in such a way, that during kernel update (linux-headers, i.e. writing lot of small files, to be more specific) it just gave up and became unresponsive until power cycle. It still did work during normal, user usage when the demand on it was light.
- formerly_proven 6y agoFWIW I observed similar behaviors, but it was caused by the file system (btrfs), not the underlying storage.