SSD Endurance Testing (Samsung 840) Spoiler: 840 owners won't be happy

[John Connor]

Wow! Maybe I should learn how to program in raw code and make a fortune and in time save the human race! 😀 LOL!

 

[BFG10K]

Honestly, who's going to buy a consumer drive and write 10GB/day to it on a regular basis?

I write ~35 GB almost every day when backing up. Once every 1-2 weeks I write over 600GB.

If you know that you've got a write-heavy workload, you'd be doing your homework...

Absolutely - they should buy a mechanical drive. All of my backups write to HDDs for this very reason.

That's why I smile when people say they've gone "all SSD". Unless they're writing to cloud at floppy disk transfer rates, they're either not backing things up, or they're chewing through their NAND durability.

 

[Zxian]

I write ~35 GB almost every day when backing up. Once every 1-2 weeks I write over 600GB.

Absolutely - they should buy a mechanical drive. All of my backups write to HDDs for this very reason.

That's why I smile when people say they've gone "all SSD". Unless they're writing to cloud at floppy disk transfer rates, they're either not backing things up, or they're chewing through their NAND durability.

You diverted from my statement. You're not writing your data to the SSD. 😉

My laptop and media center have no spinning drives in them, but they're both mainly access machines that pull data from my server (and push backups there as well).

 

[Emulex]

No kidding. those old samsung 830's are still being tore up by the LSI raid controllers. Remarkable durability for the $$.