SSD Endurance test. Question of the past years answered! For how long will your SSD last?

[heynando]

Will it last forever? Well, there's no easy answer. Since each brand uses different components for each model, there's no universal answer, but we could easily conclude based on TechReport's article that it will definitely last for a loooooooooooooooooong time, not for as little as the majority of people tend to think of.

Our friends at TechReport.com managed to find a way to foresse the future, and kill this question that has been bugging us for years by using a method of excessive writing that allows them to predict more or less and a very low margin of error when your SSD will finally fail.

The article is an astonishing post, a result of a very hard work, yeah, it is hard to get this result. So kudos to them, everyone that has an SSD or is intrigued for not knowing exactly for long it will last - which you should be anyways, bcuz it's your data if you don't care about your data who will care?! - should it read it.

sparkle source = http://www.pcper.com/news/General-Tech/TechReport-SSD-Endurance-Gets-Interesting-300TB
original source = http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-testing-data-retention-at-300tb

 

[orangecat]

With regluar use it wil last logn enough that your SSD will be considered slow by the the time you need an upgrade. Don't use a consumer grade SSD in a server environment but as a boot drive or a games drive it shoudl last for years.

[rashdanml]

For 300TB data written, at 5GB per day, it'll take 160 years to reach 300TB. Most people definitely don't write 5GB per day to the ssd.

[Guest GRRigger]

Impressive. 

[Blue fellow]

I bought my 840 Pro around this time last year and I've only written 2.55tb so I've still got another century or two of writing to do to meet those numbers 

[dark-D]

For 300TB data written, at 5GB per day, it'll take 160 years to reach 300TB. Most people definitely don't write 5GB per day to the ssd.

 

my torrent client begs to differ.

[rashdanml]

my torrent client begs to differ.

Most people I'm not counting exceptions. 

[Mooshi]

2 year old SSD with little capacity and it still benches with nice performance. Just don't depend on the terrible WEI for SSD worth. Mine shows up as 7.9/7.8 with no partition and 5.9 with..makes perfect sense. Not really.

 

I do like how an SSD can be dropped and it's "whatever" while the wrong bump and your HDD is dead. Even if flash has a limited life cycle, I trust it more than the fragile platters of a standard hard drive.

[SirReallySam]

 

that it will definitely last for a loooooooooooooooooong time, not for as little as the majority of people tend to think of.

[ForsakenLive]

Woah, that SK Hynix 19nm + LAMD Enterprise controller Corsair uses on its SSDs is beast.

[miyabwah]

I've never had an SSD and probably won't be getting one soon, but knowing they can last "long" makes me more considerate of buying an SSD.

[Chevaishr]

hmmm good to know ... i can now sleep better at night if i get an ssd  

[Eroda]

I've never had an SSD and probably won't be getting one soon, but knowing they can last "long" makes me more considerate of buying an SSD.

 

as a boot drive and game drive to speed up loading times they are awesome

[Mooshi]

as a boot drive and game drive to speed up loading times they are awesome

 

Only has an advantage for single player. For multi, you still have to wait for the other players. =p Does feel nice to open the bloated as hell Photoshop CS6 within 2 seconds, though.

[Adnanklink]

my torrent client begs to differ.

why would you download more than 5gb a day to an ssd?

 

lemme rephrase that, why would you use ssd as storage?

[dark-D]

why would you download more than 5gb a day to an ssd?

 

lemme rephrase that, why would you use ssd as storage?

i have a laptop as my main rig. also if ssd wants to become the default storage for computers it has to be able to handle it.

there are some laptops out there with only flash storage, an example is macbook air or thinkpad x1. (my next laptop, when mine dies)

[Eroda]

Only has an advantage for single player. For multi, you still have to wait for the other players. =p Does feel nice to open the bloated as hell Photoshop CS6 within 2 seconds, though.

 

yep, Photoshop so fast... but even in MP games its good to be the first one in the server specially if you get other guys with SSD's im playing before some people with HDD's can

[samuel]

why would you download more than 5gb a day to an ssd?

 

lemme rephrase that, why would you use ssd as storage?

A typical youtuber writes 5-15 gb of cached videos to boot disk per day.. the OS writes another 10 gigs or more (hybernation, file indexing. virtual memory etc). A lot of games (rancing most of them) are actually recording your gameplay for viewing later in-game (DIRT, FIFA). So realistically, a more than average user writes 30 GB of data to the ssd per day depending of ram size and other tweaks (hiberfil disabled for example.)  

240 GB SSDs are waay better at endurance than 120BG versions, It's not as simple as if the that large ssd resisted to 300 TB, my ssd wich has half of capacity can hold 150 TB. Nope! That's why first 30 GB or less SSDs where so expensive- they would've die so friggin fast if they'd have today's cheap TLC flash. And the lake of TRIM didn;t help at all!

Your 120 GB MLC/TLC SSD  @ 30 GB per day will last you 6-10 years wich is more than fine. However, I download alot of UBUNTUS via torrent client and that's why I still use a large, fast enough mechanical drive as secondary storage.

The funny thing is that WIndows 8.1 with office installed and all other small programs (VLC, Chrome etc) uses 21 GB of disk space..... Soooo.....umm.... cheapest 64 GB SSD+ multiple TB HDD is better deal than a single 500 GB SSD (for now).

EDIT:Laptops, I know...

[GBBnero]

Only has an advantage for single player. For multi, you still have to wait for the other players. =p Does feel nice to open the bloated as hell Photoshop CS6 within 2 seconds, though.

 

Indeed. I mainly use mine for Windows and a few single player games I play regularly.

 

yep, Photoshop so fast... but even in MP games its good to be the first one in the server specially if you get other guys with SSD's im playing before some people with HDD's can

 

Dunno. I play MP to play with other People. I don't really want to run around looking for the other guy. By the Time I find him the others are in the Game as well. Plus capping flags in DOM before anyone else is in the Game kind of takes away from the competitive side which is the reason I play MP. Compete with other human beings. If I want to relax i play SP or, sometimes, against bots.

[Eroda]

capping points. sounds like a crappy modern shooter.. CS is the only decent FPS in the world