> as soon as you turn the drive on, presumably you refresh the charge No, bits lose their charge slowly but it doesn't matter whether the SSD is powered on or

> as soon as you turn the drive on, presumably you refresh the charge No, bits lose their charge slowly but it doesn't matter whether the SSD is powered on or off. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256180-32-read-longevity http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256180-32-read-longevity As a side note, the really interesting thing about this endurance test is that almost all the drives fail badly at the end of their life. Even though almost all the manufacturers specifically claim they "fail safe" into a read-only mode.