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

[RexinOridle]

it has been almost year and total bytes written on my 840 is only around half a terabyte. I'm probably taking that to the grave.

[Doobeedoo]

This is great, but hmmm not all that impressed, that's around couple of dozens GBs per day across 10y span.

[AlwaysFSX]

*defragments ssd*

*evil laugh*

[The Benjamins]

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

 

Your likely hood of failing is 2X while the max total writes is the same as 1 drive at the same size. (2 500GB raid0 vs 1 1TB)

[yurihellsing]

So are they testing them till they die as in they're still being tested?

[bcredeur97]

So are they testing them till they die as in they're still being tested?

yes, indeed they are! They are testing until they refuse to work.