Relative to SSDs, with wear leveling technology, will a larger capacity SSD last...

[moose44]

longer than one with less capacity? In other words, if you've only used 30 gigs of space on a 60 gig drive and or on a 120 gig drive. Will the 120 read write many more years? Thank you!

 

[exdeath]

Yes, twice as long.

 

[Mopetar]

Yes, but the only caveat is that bigger capacities generally mean using NAND manufactured on a new, smaller process that generally has resulted in a decrease in the number of writes that can be performed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yes, but the only caveat is that bigger capacities generally mean using NAND manufactured on a new, smaller process that generally has resulted in a decrease in the number of writes that can be performed.

The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe uses 3x nm toggle nand, I think from Toshiba. I don't know how many P/E cycles it has, but it should be higher than 24/25nm MLC nand. I bought the 240GB one.

SSDLife says it will last 8 years or more.

 

[exdeath]

Yes, but the only caveat is that bigger capacities generally mean using NAND manufactured on a new, smaller process that generally has resulted in a decrease in the number of writes that can be performed.

True but given the same generation SSD by a vendor, they typically use the same chips on the same PCB, one is just 8 and the other is 16.