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SpykeZ

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Posted: Wed, 24th Sep 2014 05:10 Post subject: The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only two remain after 1.5PB

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YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH DATA can be written to modern SSDs. No, seriously. Our ongoing SSD Endurance Experiment has demonstrated that some consumer-grade drives can withstand over a petabyte of writes before burning out. That's a hyperbole-worthy total for a class of products typically rated to survive only a few hundred terabytes at most.

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I'd always wondered what the life span was of these. I've had my 830 for like a year and a half now and it's sitting on 5.73TB written.

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my v3 on 37.4TB read and 26.6TB writes, 94% health status according to crystaldiskinfo Proud member of Frustrated Association of International Losers Failing Against the Gifted and Superior (F.A.I.L.F.A.G.S)