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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp

The SSD Endurance Experiment: 200TB update - The Tech Report - Page 1

First update at 200TB. And the Samsungs are looking just as bad as I thought they would (if not worse).

IMO, it is important to keep the following statements in mind as we read through the SSD endurance experiment:

It's important to keep things in perspective, though. We've written 200TB to the drives—the equivalent of more than 100GB per day for five years—and most of the SSDs are completely intact. Even though a decent-sized portion of the 840 Series' flash has expired, the drive appears to be far from failure.

As an educated consumer, it is important to look at our own data usage patterns, and then apply the results from the SSD endurance test back to what you do. If your SSD is primarily an OS+programs drive, does it really matter if it doesn't have that top tier endurance rating? If your usage falls way short of the endurance test levels, how many years are you gonna need before you achieve the same level of drive wear as the torture test?