Remember those consumer SSD's that survived a petabyte of writes? Well the 2 Petabyte barrier was just crossed...

[bcredeur97]

Hey guys, was browising twitter again and saw that the article from a while back was back about consumer SSD write performance.

 

The Tech report just crossed the 256 GB 2PB barrier and only two are left, the Samsung 840 Pro, and the 240GB Kingston Hyper X 3K (though it has some uncorrectable errors ) (keep in mind these are only 240/256, 512 or more drives have more flash and can theoretically last much longer O_O)

 

The 840 Pro had about 8GB worth of reallocated sectors:

 

They also said the used block reserve was a better indicator of drive health than the typical wear leveling count.

The hyper X 3K appeared to actually be better with only 124 Megabytes of reallocated sectors!

 

BUT it had some uncorrectable errors, which means for the average user: REPLACE THE DRIVE IMMEDIATELY.

 

This is insane how much these drives can withstand, if you were ever scared about SSD life, get one of these drives it will probably last you longer than  a hard drive actually!!!

 

 

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

[chicksoup]

that sounds awesome, but before anyone could utilize that amount of data I would guess the ssd would be outdated or slow after 10 years

[Victorious Secret]

that sounds awesome, but before anyone could utilize that amount of data I would guess the ssd would be outdated or slow after 10 years

 

 

This is true. By the time you get to the point of writing that much data to a SSD, newer and better and cheaper SSDs have been launched, thus allowing your SSD to experience a failure and you not being as screwed on a replacement. 

[Lord Baal]

Guess I'll have to get myself both a 840pro and a 850pro then this 840 evo with total bytes written at 1.75tb can go to my HTPC.

[Morpheus]

I wouldn't really call it survived if there were some "uncorrectable errors" in the data being read/written to the drives. they're basically failing at this point but it's still cool.

[Octagoncow]

This is just insane. It's good to hear an update on this.

[bcredeur97]

I wouldn't really call it survived if there were some "uncorrectable errors" in the data being read/written to the drives. they're basically failing at this point but it's still cool.

only the Hyper X 3K had uncorrectable errors, the samsung had some reallocated sectors but was still going. crazy lol

[Morpheus]

only the Hyper X 3K had uncorrectable errors, the samsung had some reallocated sectors but was still going. crazy lol

that's a little better then

[Real_PhillBert]

So your saying I dont have to worry about the 850 pro in my work machine?

[projectmayhem]

Awesome. That's what I call a quality product.

[zacRupnow]

Wonder how long my 850 pro will last

[The Benjamins]

My 250GB Samsung 840 as 10 TB in total writes of normal use as a boot drive after 2 years. so it can it 100 years easily. I now have 2 500GB M550 in raid 0.

850 Pro's can last multiple times longer then a 840 pro.

[XTankSlayerX]

So can we please stop complaining about Denovo DRM "destroying" SSDs?

[Plasma]

i had to purchases a new ssd after my intel 330 died glad i went with the 840 pro 2pb thats all most indestructible i should have this drive for a long time 

[Guest Kloaked]

I came.

[HermanT]

and thats with the old drives... they dont even stand to new 3D nand drives, these are probably twice as durable, because they dont have to have a crammed manufacturing process...

 

waiting for intels 3D ssd, although it will take half a year...

[MoonSpot]

Let's not forget that just because 1 SSD from brand X reaches this level of rewrites, does not mean they all will. I would find it more likely that we're looking at 2 cherry picked SSD rather then assume that every one of the units from that model has been blessed by the flash gods themselves. Probably best to take the mode average (just my opinion) failure rate into account for any plans or expectation of failure rate(s).

[HerEscutcheon]

Wonder how long my 850 pro will last

[SkilledRebuilds]

Woohoooo my 2x 840 Pro's!!!!!!

Nice read.

[Mindtrickz]

My 250GB Samsung 840 as 10 TB in total writes of normal use as a boot drive after 2 years. so it can it 100 years easily. I now have 2 500GB M550 in raid 0.

850 Pro's can last multiple times longer then a 840 pro.

 

Same here. Bought mine November 2013, and it's currently at 11.62TB.

[bcredeur97]

updated the post with some images and stuff. Sorry about the wait. Was working on my dads car (which hasnt been running for 2 weeks now...)

[Mooshi]

Mark my words, Samsung 850 Evo is the one to get whenever it's out.

[shermantanker]

and this why I bought an 840 pro...I'll never use that much data, but I tend to go overkill.

[zacRupnow]

  B) Would putting it in RAID lower the lifespan to Almost Forever? :blink:

[Nicktrance]

This is true. By the time you get to the point of writing that much data to a SSD, newer and better and cheaper SSDs have been launched, thus allowing your SSD to experience a failure and you not being as screwed on a replacement.

Actually most people would have probably retired the ssd for other reasons by that time.

Mark my words, Samsung 850 Evo is the

one to get whenever it's out.

Such a pity they didn't include an 840 EVO in this test (I believe it had just been released when they started it) it would have given us a good idea of how well the TLC SLC combo works. With VNAND TLC it should really be awesome though, I guess TR will have to make another test with VNAND SSDs once these fail .