The SSD Endurance Experiment: Finally, They Are All Dead

[IceCold007]

Glad I bought a 840 pro as my main OS drive. Ive had it over 1 year so far only 3.22TB written so far LOL. Guess ive got a long way to go before it fails muahahah

[CaptainGazzz]

I think most people just buy a SSD for the OS, so it would be hard to reach this amount of reads/writes.

[N.tony]

And here I am using my SSD as OS-only and keeping there pretty much no games whatsoever...

I guess I'll start using it more from now on, I don't think I've broken even 1TB on it yet.

I guess since the price per Gb went down almost a tenfold in 5 years, it's pretty safe to assume it'll be alright to clock ~100TB per year. That's pretty much like filling my whole 256GB drive every single day.

[Takata]

Rather than saying SSDs are inherently reliable, this just says that this particular mode of failure (flash cell wear-out) is nearly impossible to encounter. If your SSD fails, it will certainly be for a different reason.