SSD Lifespan

[Aleks NE]

So I just bought a 128GB SSD for my laptop, It's rated for ten years at 20GB a day. How long have your SSDs lasted? Have you ever had an SSD die really early? 

[Gaussen]

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[themctipers]

I still have some Corsair ssd from ~2009/2010 and it’s working.. can’t say it’s fast, because it’s got a 10 year old installation of windows 7 on it, but it works. 

[bomberblyat]

ssd's usually live longer than hdd's

[JakeNTech]

I have only ever seen an SSD die once...thats because I dropped it down the stairs. 

[Sakkura]

I have a cheap OCZ SSD purchased in 2012, still running fine. It reports having 97% of lifespan left.

[MikeyG]

I have 3 ssd's ranging in age from 3 to 5 years and they all still work just fine. Just for reference One is an OCZ (can't remember model), one is a crucial M4, and the last is a Samsung 840 evo.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Unlike HDDs, there are no mechanical parts to break in an SSD, so it's not really susceptible to wear over time. What kills SSDs over time is using up write cycles. 20GB a day for 10 years is basically saying it's good for 73,000GB of writes, though most SSDs will last longer than that, getting close to or going over a Petabyte. The lifespan of an SSD is better classified in number of writes than time, as you could have an SSD last for decades if you're not writing to it much, but could also kill it within a year if you're writing a huge amount of data to it.

 

Failure of components can kill SSDs pre-maturely, but it's not just a matter of time like it is with mechanical drives. I have three SSDs in my system all going strong for 3 years. 

[MikeyG]

I've heard that data on them can become corrupted if left unpowered for long periods, multiple years I think. Come to think of it, I may have seen that in a Tech Quickie vid, lol

[WereCat]

My 120GB 3y old Kingston HyperX died outside of warranty and I got it replaced by Kingston for free and newer 120GB Kingston Savage (I paid for shipping) (purchased in 2013).

I am also using Samsung 850 EVO 500GB.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

14 minutes ago, bomberblyat said:

ssd's usually live longer than hdd's

How come? The nand flash inside them (AFAIK) are kept in a rated longevity, not the thing that you expect a harddisk to spin, write and read data everyday

[inorishizuka]

My oldest stock from my very first build, crucial m4 64gb 2011

[porina]

I've had two sudden deaths so far, not endurance related. One was a very cheap ebay unbranded 60GB. The other was a Sandisk 480GB SATA model. I got warranty replacement on the 2nd. The only early clue something was wrong with the Sandisk was that the drive sometimes didn't appear on boot. I mistook that to be a bad connection or something as a reboot usually bought it back, until one day nothing I did would make it detectable any more.