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> Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger deal. "Citation needed". For anything resembling normal usage an SSD will last well beyond the economic lifetim
by bzzzt 3y ago
> Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger deal.
"Citation needed". For anything resembling normal usage an SSD will last well beyond the economic lifetime of the rest of the components surrounding it. So why is it that big a deal to replace it?
- cjk2 3y agoI don't think anyone has worked this out yet. Literally 99% of laptops out there die and/or are recycled with the stock configuration. The first thing to go are the ports, batteries, screens, keyboards. I haven't seen an SSD failure in a decade now and we have thousands of them in production and on people's laptops.
- rezaprima 3y agoMy Macbook Air 2015's SSD failed and I had it replaced. And at the same time had its battery replaced for the second time.
- jerzmacow 3y agoI'm sure my usage would be excessive compared to a normal user, but I find SSDs last 2-3 years on average. I buy Samsung, perhaps that's the real issue
- throwaway48476 3y agoThe problem is that there is no "normal usage" for a general purpose PC. It will run any software you want. I had a hyper-v bug that thrashed one of my SSD's and when the M1 launches they had a swap bug that thrashed them as well. The reality is that if something is a wear item a non zero part of the population will wear it out. To toss a perfectly good logic board for a suicidal SSD is absurdity.