Write Amplification and SSD life span

[Arron]

I was wondering how long I can expect my SSD to last based on how much I plan to use it. I have a 500gb samsung 850 evo and I plan to use it as my primary drive for large projects like video editing and animations. I specifically want to know if all of the small additions and changes (repeatedly saving my progress) that come with animations will wear out the SSD faster than usual. At most I might rewrite and write new files as big as 1gb per day and I also plan to have most of my SSD space free. I've tried to read up on it but haven't found much on the topic (that I could understand at least). I've heard that writing really small amounts of data multiple times increases write amplification and wears out SSDs, this is mainly what I'm concerned about, faster but I can't be sure of that (also a little uneducated on what exactly write amplification is). I realize that this may be a relatively un-talked about topic or a topic that no-one really pays that much mind to because everyone can just back up their data on an external drive or something but if anyone can help with this it would be greatly appreciated. And yeah, I do plan on backing up all of my data, I just don't want to unexpectedly have my drive die.

[Mira Yurizaki]

TLC NAND has about 1000 P/E cycles before it's considered unusable. So assuming wear leveling is perfect, you'd have to write 500 TB before the drive is toast. At 1GB per day, you're looking at a life span of about 1370 years.

 

But if you really want to get an accurate estimate, do what you'd normally do on the SSD for about half a year, then look at what Samsung Magician reports as how much data was written on the drive.

[JoostinOnline]

4 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

TLC NAND has about 1000 P/E cycles before it's considered unusable. So assuming wear leveling is perfect, you'd have to write 500 TB before the drive is toast. At 1GB per day, you're looking at a life span of about 1370 years.

 

But if you really want to get an accurate estimate, do what you'd normally do on the SSD for about half a year, then look at what Samsung Magician reports as how much data was written on the drive.

I thought all Samsung drives besides the 840 ones used MLC?

[Arron]

1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

I thought all Samsung drives besides the 840 ones used MLC?

yeah, apparently the one i have is rated for about 2000 cycles. Although that's just something I read once

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

I thought all Samsung drives besides the 840 ones used MLC?

Everything after the 840 uses TLC. As far as I know anyway.

 

EDIT: Apparently the Pro versions use MLC, so there's that.

[Arron]

1 minute ago, Arron said:

yeah, apparently the one i have is rated for about 2000 cycles. Although that's just something I read once

wait no... the pro version uses mlc, my evo still uses tlc

[JoostinOnline]

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Everything after the 840 uses TLC. As far as I know anyway.

I checked and it's the Pro models that use MLC. The EVO ones use TLC.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, JoostinOnline said:

I checked and it's the Pro models that use MLC. The EVO ones use TLC.

Either way, OP has an EVO and it's TLC. So my assessment stands.