How long does a Samsung EVO 850 SSD last for?

[Wayfall]

Hi Community

So my question is how long would a Samsung EVO 850 SSD last write wise.

For example say i write 30GB onto the SSD then deleted it then write 30GB again then deleted it and did it one more time, what would be the effect?

Also i found this thread on here and wondered if it was true 'Endurance tests have shown recent consumer grade SSD's (Kingston Hyper X, Samsung EVO, etc) to last beyond 800TB total writes before they started to fail.
My current C drive, Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB, has had ~7TB total writes in ~2.5 years. Do the math on that'
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2422317/long-samsung-840-evo.html?xtor=EREC-8889

Regards

 

[Wayfall]

If you have not already done so, then go to the Samsung web site. Download and install the Samsung Magician utility.

Once installed, open it and use. It can check to see if the Windows TRIM feature is enabled and whether the ACHI mode is enabled in the motherboard's system BIOS. If they aren't, then the Magician will enable them. You can also use the Magician to keep track how much data has been written to the ssd and to optimize the ssd.

SSD manufacturers have been extremely conservative when estimating write endurance. There have been several endurance tests that have been published. You should really read the series of reports published by The Tech Report:

Here are the links to all of their reports / updates:

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment

http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-22tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/25559/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-200tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-testing-data-retention-at-300tb

http://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-500tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte

http://techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-only-two-remain-after-1-5pb

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

I had magician installed and I used it yesterday and it said AHCI was not enabled so I had to look online what registry I had to edit in regedit so when I enable the AHCI in the BIOS I didn't get a BSOD. I found the registry I had to edit then turned ACHI on in the BIOS then booted to windows. Magician shows AHCI is working and recognizes my SATA controllers and now it is using TRIM as I enabled AHCI.

 

[Sakkura]

'Your Kingston SSD'.....mines a Samsung EVO 850 it says on the title..

Sorry, I misunderstood your original post and the reference to a Kingston HyperX SSD.

 

[laviniuc]

If you have not already done so, then go to the Samsung web site. Download and install the Samsung Magician utility.

Once installed, open it and use. It can check to see if the Windows TRIM feature is enabled and whether the ACHI mode is enabled in the motherboard's system BIOS. If they aren't, then the Magician will enable them. You can also use the Magician to keep track how much data has been written to the ssd and to optimize the ssd.

SSD manufacturers have been extremely conservative when estimating write endurance. There have been several endurance tests that have been published. You should really read the series of reports published by The Tech Report:

Here are the links to all of their reports / updates:

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment

http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endurance-experiment

http://techreport.com/review/25320/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-22tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/25559/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-200tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-testing-data-retention-at-300tb

http://techreport.com/review/25889/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-500tb-update

http://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

http://techreport.com/review/26523/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-casualties-on-the-way-to-a-petabyte

http://techreport.com/review/27062/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-only-two-remain-after-1-5pb

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

I had magician installed and I used it yesterday and it said AHCI was not enabled so I had to look online what registry I had to edit in regedit so when I enable the AHCI in the BIOS I didn't get a BSOD. I found the registry I had to edit then turned ACHI on in the BIOS then booted to windows. Magician shows AHCI is working and recognizes my SATA controllers and now it is using TRIM as I enabled AHCI.

good, so what capacity 850 evo? and how much data is written to the drive? (also displayed on the magician)

 

[Wayfall]

Its a 250GB one.. hmm I don't know fully at the moment how much it has written but last time I looked it had about 0.2Tb so far and has about 30-40Gb on it as the windows first install played up after I finished my mobo drivers and it wouldn't boot to the SSD so I had to reinstall which sucked and then the windows update was playing up by the updates constantly failing but I think I have fixed now as it has done 40 of the updates so for, I'm doing them 10 at a time. Pretty sucky that I'm already at 0.2TB written due to these problems but I guess after I have the SSD set up with all the updates and applications I am going to use on it will stay around the same number as it will be reading lots compared to writing.

 

[ccampy]

That's only 200Gb a window's installed and few programs and games can fill have of that up


But don't worry about its life span yoy will be throwing itnin the bin as its too small befor a home user wears it out

 

[USAFRet]

Pretty sucky that I'm already at 0.2TB written due to these problems but I guess after I have the SSD set up with all the updates and applications I am going to use on it will stay around the same number as it will be reading lots compared to writing.

Correct. The initial setup is obviously a lot of writes. That rate will slow down a LOT once you get the system set up properly.
Look at it again in 6 months.

That initial quote at the top was from me, quite a while ago.
That same Kingston 120GB drive is now at 12.47TB total writes, in 28,862 power on hours.
40 months, 3.3 years.

Again, do the math. Most current drives have a warranty of 75 or 150TB writes.
Given constant usage at that rate, that 12.47TB in 40 months = 75TB in 240 months. 20 years.

It is no longer the boot drive, simply due to size. It has been recently replaced with a 840 EVO 250GB.

And the size IS the issue.
I have working drives from 1998, in a Dell laptop. 2GB, I think. Running Linux and Win2k.
How well would a 2GB work today?

How well will a 250GB drive work in 2035. Yeah, right..

 

[Wayfall]

Pretty sucky that I'm already at 0.2TB written due to these problems but I guess after I have the SSD set up with all the updates and applications I am going to use on it will stay around the same number as it will be reading lots compared to writing.

Correct. The initial setup is obviously a lot of writes. That rate will slow down a LOT once you get the system set up properly.
Look at it again in 6 months.

That initial quote at the top was from me, quite a while ago.
That same Kingston 120GB drive is now at 12.47TB total writes, in 28,862 power on hours.
40 months, 3.3 years.

Again, do the math. Most current drives have a warranty of 75 or 150TB writes.
Given constant usage at that rate, that 12.47TB in 40 months = 75TB in 240 months. 20 years.

It is no longer the boot drive, simply due to size. It has been recently replaced with a 840 EVO 250GB.

And the size IS the issue.
I have working drives from 1998, in a Dell laptop. 2GB, I think. Running Linux and Win2k.
How well would a 2GB work today?

How well will a 250GB drive work in 2035. Yeah, right..

Ye I know at the rate programs sizes are increasing we need to keep increasing are storage devices size and speed but only every few years or so.

I'm happy my SSD is set up pretty much now as I finished windows update yesterday as I have fixed the failed updates problem, just going to finish installing Fallout 4 (Game size: 25GB) then I'm leaving my SSD to read programs.
I'll put the rest of my games on my WCD HDD.