SSD Lifespan

[Hipstair]

So I was just wondering how long SSD's can last. Also, what things can affect the lifespan of SSD's?

[legend8887]

So I was just wondering how long SSD's can last. Also, what things can affect the lifespan of SSD's?

Writing to it too many times can kill it faster.

[Enderman]

intel 730 series SSDs have a much more durable write capacity, so they claim it lasts up to 70GB/day for over 5 years. Your life time will depends on mow much you write to it per day.

[BirdyTheMighty]

or you can kill it outright by formating it multiple times

[ForsakenLive]

It really depends on the usage, if you go heavy on it, it's going to last less time.

For the typical mainstream usage, consumer drives last over 4 years while sustaining decent performance, you know OS games and programs. 

[hojnikb]

With client workload, ssds flash will be good for around 50-100 years, so there is NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT

 

 

256GB*3000 p/e = 20GB per day for ~100 years (and thats using 3k p/e, which in pratices is always much higer -- up to 5-10k p/e)...

[alpenwasser]

As said above, SSD lifespan isn't really a concern in most usage

scenarios these days anymore. As an example, this guy did some

write endurance tests on a Samsung drive, and it took him 3 Petabytes

to kill the drive.

Of course, a drive will start to throw errors way before it actually

dies, see this test as an alternate example of long-term behavior.

As for other factors which could reduce your drive's lifespan,

an SSD is a pretty robust device. As long as you take proper

care of it (i.e. run it in an environment that's not super hot,

don't treat it with high radiation or a hammer and so on), it

should be fine.

[Ahnzh]

As said above, SSD lifespan isn't really a concern in most usage

scenarios these days anymore. As an example, this guy did some

write endurance tests on a Samsung drive, and it took him 3 Petabytes

to kill the drive.

Of course, a drive will start to throw errors way before it actually

dies, see this test as an alternate example of long-term behavior.

As for other factors which could reduce your drive's lifespan,

an SSD is a pretty robust device. As long as you take proper

care of it (i.e. run it in an environment that's not super hot,

don't treat it with high radiation or a hammer and so on), it

should be fine.

THIS!

 

In general you can expect at least 3-4 years during heavy usage.

 

As a system drive with irregular accesses to it while playing games will higher this to 7-8 years.

 

If you get an SSD, don't think about it's lifetime. You most likely will exchange it because of limited storage before it gives up working

 

 

/edit: it's multiple times as reliable as HDDs actually

[hojnikb]

As a system drive with irregular accesses to it while playing games will higher this to 7-8 years.

 

 

With that kind of workload, ssd will last decades not 7-8 years. Remember, flash only degrades, when you write to it. Reading has no effect on lifetime.

 

 

In general you can expect at least 3-4 years during heavy usage.

 

You would really have to hammer it hard to kill it that fast. And i mean like constant writting at drives maximum speed all the time. Which is pretty much unrealistical scenario on a client machine.

 

Seriously, SSD endurace should be the last thing to worry about. It's a fairly big chance drive will fail in some other aspect (controller faulire) or it will just be useless (too small or too slow).