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There was a review of SSD lifespan a while back, they found the samsung 840 pro was able to survive something to the effect of 2 petabytes of wear before failin
by Vexs 11y ago
There was a review of SSD lifespan a while back, they found the samsung 840 pro was able to survive something to the effect of 2 petabytes of wear before failing. The worst of them all started to fail at 100TB, and failed at 900TB. Unless you're running something with crazy IO, I can't imagine ever practically running into that limit.
- jordanthoms 11y agoYeah, but the problem is that SSD failures usually have nothing to do with flash wearing out, and more to do with catastrophic, sudden failures somewhere else (mostly the controller AFAIK) causing the drive to stop doing anything at all. I had a 840 Pro fail on me, hadn't had many writes but just stopped showing up in the BIOS one day.