How many Terabytes have been written to your SSD?(POLL!)

[danwat12345]

Hey guys,

Curious how many Terabytes you have written to your SSD!
I have an Intel G2 80GB. So far I am at 3.78TB according to the "Host Writes" S.M.A.R.T. attribute available for viewing with the Intel SSD Toolbox.
I think most of it is because I was running my bittorrent client, which has a memory leak, and I left it running even though it used up all my free RAM and proceeded to use 9GB of my pagefile! SSD access was intense and this is probably was caused the large value, but I don't care! My system was nice and responsive despite having no free RAM. I kept it this way for days just because I wanted to see how far I could go.. I was running out of free space on the SSD for expanding the page file size!

Drive is still 100% reliable, 3 reallocated sectors.



How much have you written to your drive without failure (post if large # of reallocated sectors)? Any manufacture of SSD but if you have over 12TB you should post if it was an SLC or MLC or hybrid SLC/MLC type.

 

[Tsavo]

98 days uptime and 560GB writes.

 

[SickBeast]

I have less than 1tb written to mine and I plan to keep it that way. I'm going to use it as a read-only drive as much as possible.

 

[Tommouse]

2.56TB on my Intel X25-V 40GB in 172 days (sometime in Sept). Still working like a champ!

 

[COPOHawk]

2.0 TB in about 15 months on Intel G2 80GB...

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I don't think it reports it right...I've had the SSD for 4 1/2 months, but I've only written 42GB onto it...?

 

[groberts101]

This x 6 drives in an R0.

 

[n7]

I have a really hard time believing the numbers being reported...

Apparently my G1 is @ 2.73 TB...there is absolutely no way that is accurate from what i can figure, or the OS apparently writes retarded amounts of data that gets deleted?

My G2s are:
717 GBs
767 GBs

My G2 160 GB (games only) drive is 135 GB (this is actually accurate for sure).

LOL it says one of my Seagate 1.5 TBs is @ 20 PB writes...
Yeah, not even remotely accurate.

 

[beginner99]

750 GB in about 10 month. Intel G2 80 GB.

Firefox is starting much slower than it used to in the beginning...

 

[bradley]

3330GB after approximately 15 months.

 

[StinkyPinky]

827GB. I think I've had it for about a year.

My other two HDD's have had a whooping 31GB. The other 81PB.

Slight difference. Hmmmm....

 

[frostedflakes]

I have a really hard time believing the numbers being reported...

Apparently my G1 is @ 2.73 TB...there is absolutely no way that is accurate from what i can figure, or the OS apparently writes retarded amounts of data that gets deleted?

My G2s are:
717 GBs
767 GBs

My G2 160 GB (games only) drive is 135 GB (this is actually accurate for sure).

LOL it says one of my Seagate 1.5 TBs is @ 20 PB writes...
Yeah, not even remotely accurate.

Just from reading threads like these on the forum, most people seem to write 5-15GB/day, somewhere in that area. Most of the writes are probably due to the swap file I'd assume. So racking up terabytes of writes over a year or two isn't unreasonable at all. And keep in mind these drives should be able to handle hundreds of TBs, so they still should have plenty of use left in them.

Also HDDs don't keep track of host writes in the SMART data, which is why the utility is reporting a wonky number for your Seagate drive.

edit: For my Vertex 2 120GB

Host writes: 1664GB
Power on hours: 3959

Computer is on 24/7, so it comes out to almost exactly 10GB/day.

 

[stargazr]

.98 TB since 12/2010 on an Intel 120 GB X25-M G2.

 

[alaricljs]

Hmmm, 6544 hrs (24x7) and 1024GB of writes. This is running xen and 2 linux VMs and an XP VM 24x7. fileserver serving off of 2TB platters, mail/web server running entirely on the SSD, and XP for torrenting and virus checks, data gets dropped to a 2TB platter.

I run gentoo and compile new packages regularly, so I'm surprised at the low write rate. Read rate is 2.8TB.

 

[happy_gopher]

Hi everyone, I have been lurking here for many moons, finally decided to jump into the mix. I am testing SSD's for my company, and just thought i would post these numbers.

STEC Mach16= .42PB TBW
OCZ Vertex2= .54PB TBW
SmartMod= .65PB TBW


Happy_Gopher

 

[alexruiz]

Kingston SSDnow V-series 425 64GB.

Per smart data
Power count: 902
Power on hours: 2054
Erase Count (ID AD): 05D6 0D43 07CE
6,416,903,636,942 bytes = 6,266,507,457 KB = 6,119,636 MB = 5976 GB = 5.83 TB

Seems too high

 

[Makaveli]

Here is mine drive has been in service since Dec 24, 2009.



Swap file and browser caches are stored on a ramdisc.

 

[Voo]

Well for a more useful statistic I think we should divide the result by the size of the SSD in GB - after all a larger SSD will most probably get more writes, but also can survive more. No idea if all SSDs have a reliable Power-On Count in hours, with that we would get some interesting numbers and more or less compareable numbers - I'm open for other suggestions though.

Anyways.. Intel G2 160gb 7TB - too bad that that record is fleeting at best, talta is surely around the corner


@alaricljs: Which SSD shows read numbers in SMART? Too bad that Intel doesn't seem to have that value.

@happy_gopher: Pah cheating - but nice values Want to talk a bit about your testing procedure in detail?

 

[happy_gopher]

@happy_gopher: Pah cheating - but nice values Want to talk a bit about your testing procedure in detail?

Sure, id love too!
I have a core2duo at 3.16GB, winXP, 3GB ram, 16X PCIe slot, with a LSI HBA installed. It feeds a minisas 4lane cable, then out to an astek expander. I have a few backplanes with 4 disks each, all ssd. I only posted some of the disks, but i am gathering metrics across the board.
I use ATTO Disk benchmark to figure out the best situation for each disk (IO queueing and transfer size), the run IOMeter 1.1.0 to pummel the disks with 100% Sequential Writes using the aforementioned queue stack and transfer size.
Currently, I have been inserting disks into the test when I get a new one, so some have been running longer than others. a couple are well over 1K hours continous.
Some are faster than others, and my new micron disk (6gbSata) hauls ass for writes.

Whats even funner :biggrin: is I have IOMeter running on a pc and dynamo running on a sunblade to do the same via solaris, but it is still a pain in the neck, and I havent got it working exactly right yet.

Hg

 

[alaricljs]

@Voo - OCZ Vertex 2 60GB

 

[Qbah]

798GB since Dec 2010 for my X25-M 120GB. I'm moving every game via SteamTool to the SSD when I play it and then move it back from the SSD when I finish it. Didn't notice anything wrong with it in the past ~4 months, works great