Anybody here "endurance out" an SSD in normal use?

[jrichrds]

I have 2 Vertex 128Gb drives that were used in a RAID0 array as system drive for the past 4 years without a problem! Recently swapped them for Kingston HyperX 120Gb drives, DiskInfo shows Vertex drives at 55% and 43%.
My Corsair Force 3 120Gb in my laptop was used daily for the past year, it still shows 100%.

Is it CrystalDiskInfo that you're using to check endurance?

And does anyone have a preferred utility to do Secure Erase on an SSD they're taking out of service?

 

[terente]

Is it CrystalDiskInfo that you're using to check endurance?

That's right!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I only use them for OS drives so I have not had any get used up yet. If I had the money to burn on several drives. I'd be curious to see how they'd fair out in a server environment where I am not doing anything special to cut down on I/O.

 

[hhhd1]

I think the testing done at xtreme systems is proof enough that with normal use its pretty much impossible to wear out your drive. they were using only 40-64gb drives and writing >100+ Tib worth of writes without any issue.

Not only the amount of data, but it took them a very long time to wear out drives, like over few months in some cases with heavy continuous writing.

Considering that normal usage usually include some idle time, so it should be fine.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

The 60GB Vertex in my laptop just died yesterday. It was unlikely an endurance issue, it just wouldn't power up. Luckily it was 1 month short of 3 years ago that I purchased it so it's still barely under warranty. Already got an RMA number from OCZ.