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What does total bytes written mean?

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Lifespan of SSDs due to read/writes isn't really something to worry about

under most normal usage scenarios.

 

This guy did a test on a Samsung SSD. Took 3 petabytes of writes until

it was dead. It might not be the same SSD as you have, but it should give

you some idea of what kind of numbers one can encounter in this area.

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I'm looking at my SSD's data sheet:

 

http://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/hyperx

 

And it says total bytes written, I'm assuming that's the number of writes before it fails? If so should I be worried about my read and writes: 

 

Lifetime reads: 4.825 TB

Lifetime writes: 6.785 TB

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no, it means that in the life of your SSD youve written 6.785 terrabytes to your SSD,

 

the same goes for the reads

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Lifespan of SSDs due to read/writes isn't really something to worry about

under most normal usage scenarios.

 

This guy did a test on a Samsung SSD. Took 3 petabytes of writes until

it was dead. It might not be the same SSD as you have, but it should give

you some idea of what kind of numbers one can encounter in this area.

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no, it means that in the life of your SSD youve written 6.785 terrabytes to your SSD,

 

the same goes for the reads

That's what is said in the SSD data sheet.

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