The wildcard here is the garbage collection in the drive, and bad firmware with high write amplification. I’ve seen TLC devices go bad within a year where the v

The wildcard here is the garbage collection in the drive, and bad firmware with high write amplification. I’ve seen TLC devices go bad within a year where the vendor optimized for full page P/E cycles. That said these were high transaction server workloads, and typical home use would be challenged to get to that kind of wear.