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Is something like the Crucial T705 or Samsung 990 or also “gaming” parts? Their manufacturers provide 5 years warranties unlike Apple. AFAIK Apple doesn’t eve
by wqaatwt 2y ago
Is something like the Crucial T705 or Samsung 990 or also “gaming” parts?
Their manufacturers provide 5 years warranties unlike Apple. AFAIK Apple doesn’t even disclose endurance ratings. Wouldn’t you expect the opposite?
- nickjj 2y ago> Their manufacturers provide 5 years warranties Yep and it's possible to get much more out of it. I've been running a Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD for 10 years. It's at 63% health from a S.M.A.R.T. readout. It's been powered on 125 times over ~10 years and transferred 56 TB in that time. It's my main Windows partition and runs WSL 2 where I've built and ran thousands of Docker images. Basically, it hasn't been sitting here unused.
- Retric 2y ago0.5% is a meaningful difference in defect rates, but simply isn’t meaningful on an individual scale.
- Retric 2y agoSamsung 990 is marketed as a PRO part and a reasonable comparison, hell it’s likely a better product than what Apple is shipping. But when a company slaps gaming 30 times on the product page, lists specific features to minimize load times etc it’s clearly targeting a specific demographic who in general wants different tradeoffs. At scale failures are more than just endurance ratings. Gaming laptops for example often cook their components due to prioritizing performance over long term stability. That doesn’t guarantee early failure, but it reduces the likelihood the system is working in 4 years.