SSD Endurance

[XavierMace]

I'm sure this is old news to some of you, but given how often this subject comes up on here, I thought this would be interesting to some:

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

In short, they started long term testing on 6 256Gb SSD's back in 2013. 3 Kingston HyperX's, a Samsung 840, a Samsung 840 Pro, a Corsair Neutron Series GTX and an Intel 335 Series. In short, one of the Kingston's and the 840 Pro are still going after 2 Petabytes of writes. All of the drives lasted well beyond their quoted endurance specs. The other item of note is how the drives handled their failures. It's definitely worth a read.

 

[coercitiv]

All of the drives lasted well beyond their quoted endurance specs.

Keep in mind that quoted endurance spec is for offline data retention of at least one year.

TechReport leaves disks offline for 1-3 weeks when checking data retention. At this point I'd rather have them stop writing to those two drives and check data retention thoroughly. From what I understand, long periods of time can be simulated by increasing drive temperature (while offline).

 

[corkyg]

Been using a pair of 830 Pros since Sept 2012 with nary a problem. That's about 2.5 years of normal usage. I've had HDDs not last that long.

 

[HalfCrazy]

Been using a pair of 830 Pros since Sept 2012 with nary a problem. That's about 2.5 years of normal usage. I've had HDDs not last that long.

I still got a 20 GB IBM Travelstar which is a 2.5" IDE hard drive. This drive has been working since 2002 which makes the drive 13 years old.

I pulled the drive from a MP3 player I used to have which quit working at the time. Then ended up placing the drive in a hard drive enclosure.