30gb to 40gb writes each day to Samsung 840 Evo

[Exona]

I am currently writing 30gb to 40gb each to my Samsung 840 Evo (250gb) drive. I expect this to slowly increase over time.

Is my usage going to be a problem for my drive later on? I would like to last at least another three to four years.

 

[TemjinGold]

You shouldn't be using a consumer class SSD then.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

In the techreport endurance test that ssd started to have problems at 300 TB.

You might in trouble in 20 years, and certainly fail in 60.

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

 

[corkyg]

At that rate it will be full in about a week!

 

[StrangerGuy]

SSD write endurance is a complete non-issue by this point. Anything else in the PC including the drive electronics itself is going to die much, much sooner before hitting the 20 year limit on write endurance, and its mighty generous compared to a PSU that usually only rated to 50K hours MTBF.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

SSD write endurance is a complete non-issue by this point. Anything else in the PC including the drive electronics itself is going to die much, much sooner before hitting the 20 year limit on write endurance, and its mighty generous compared to a PSU that usually only rated to 50K hours MTBF.

Since this is a TLC drive, there could be issues since the NAND is only rated for 1000 P/E cycles. I don't think there are any issues in this case however.

If you do the math, at 40GB daily, you're looking at exhausting one P/E cycle every 6 1/4 day. 4 years is 1461 days, so you're looking at ~234 P/E cycles used, assuming perfect write amplification. Which we all know doesn't happen in practice. But even at 3x write amplification it should be within safe limits for a fresh drive.

OP, if you don't mind me asking, what are you doing that requires 40GB of writes daily? I'm guessing video editing of some sort?