How long will a Samsung 840 EVO last?

[Blupoiz0n]

im going to get a 250gb one, and its going to be my boot drive, with games on it, ran every day for like 6 hours +.
How long will it last?

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Anywhere from a week to 10 years.

It's not possible to predict this with certainty.

 

[Blupoiz0n]

Anywhere from a week to 10 years.

It's not possible to predict this with certainty.

Thats putting me off xD

 

[ThatVietGuy]

It's like asking when do you think you're going to die - can you predict with absolute certainty when you or someone else is going to die?

Samsung SSDs are insanely reliable, but that's not to say there aren't duds. Nothing man-made has a 0% failure rate and SSDs haven't been around long enough to determine actual lifespan under day-to-day use.

 

[sizzling]

You should be good for years and even a decade but anything can break at any time. As long as you backup you important files I wouldn't worry

 

[USAFRet]

A typical drive? Decades.
A specific drive? 1 day or 100 years. Just like any other item.

SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. The old suggestions of them dying early are wildly overblown.

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.

 

[USAFRet]

Documentation for the above:
http://us.hardware.info/reviews/4178/10/hardwareinfo-tests-lifespan-of-samsung-ssd-840-250gb-tlc-ssd-updated-with-final-conclusion-final-update-20-6-2013
(This was at the 600TB point. Some drives went beyond 1PB total writes)

 

[sterlin22]

Take a look at the Samsung 850 EVO, as it just came out a few days ago and utilizes vertical 3-d just like the 850 PRO.

 

[Blupoiz0n]

A typical drive? Decades.
A specific drive? 1 day or 100 years. Just like any other item.

SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. The old suggestions of them dying early are wildly overblown.

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.

Ok Thanks alot, One more question and ill mark you as solution.
Say I load a game of BF4, Each maps ~2GB, Will that then add 2gb to GbW?
So then theres like 3 map changes a hour, so will that be ~6GB/H?!
Just asking. Maps might be a little smaller too.

 

[USAFRet]

A typical drive? Decades.
A specific drive? 1 day or 100 years. Just like any other item.

SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. The old suggestions of them dying early are wildly overblown.

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.

Ok Thanks alot, One more question and ill mark you as solution.
Say I load a game of BF4, Each maps ~2GB, Will that then add 2gb to GbW?
So then theres like 3 map changes a hour, so will that be ~6GB/H?!
Just asking. Maps might be a little smaller too.

No. That is reads, not writes. You can read all you want.

Like a piece of paper:
If I pick it up and read it, no wear.
If I take a pen and write on it over and over, eventually that piece of paper will wear through and be unusable. So I have to use other sections of the paper. Eventually, I run out of non-messed up space.
But I can read it for centuries.

 

[Blupoiz0n]

A typical drive? Decades.
A specific drive? 1 day or 100 years. Just like any other item.

SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. The old suggestions of them dying early are wildly overblown.

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.

Ok Thanks alot, One more question and ill mark you as solution.
Say I load a game of BF4, Each maps ~2GB, Will that then add 2gb to GbW?
So then theres like 3 map changes a hour, so will that be ~6GB/H?!
Just asking. Maps might be a little smaller too.

No. That is reads, not writes. You can read all you want.

Like a piece of paper:
If I pick it up and read it, no wear.
If I take a pen and write on it over and over, eventually that piece of paper will wear through and be unusable. So I have to use other sections of the paper. Eventually, I run out of non-messed up space.
But I can read it for centuries.

Thanks. Im assuming that moving a file is like rubbing it out, and writing it somewhere else is it?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks. Im assuming that moving a file is like rubbing it out, and writing it somewhere else is it?

A little more complicated than that (especially with an SSD), but that is the general concept.

 

[Blupoiz0n]

A typical drive? Decades.
A specific drive? 1 day or 100 years. Just like any other item.

SSD's are proving to be more reliable than HDD's. The old suggestions of them dying early are wildly overblown.

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.

Ok Thanks alot, One more question and ill mark you as solution.
Say I load a game of BF4, Each maps ~2GB, Will that then add 2gb to GbW?
So then theres like 3 map changes a hour, so will that be ~6GB/H?!
Just asking. Maps might be a little smaller too.

No. That is reads, not writes. You can read all you want.

Like a piece of paper:
If I pick it up and read it, no wear.
If I take a pen and write on it over and over, eventually that piece of paper will wear through and be unusable. So I have to use other sections of the paper. Eventually, I run out of non-messed up space.
But I can read it for centuries.

Worth waiting for the 850 evo? http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/warranty.html
the 840 has 3 years no matter what,
850 evo has 5 years or 75TBW.
Will that be suitable?

 

[USAFRet]

Worth waiting for the 850 evo? http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/warranty.html
the 840 has 3 years no matter what,
850 evo has 5 years or 75TBW.
Will that be suitable?

Well, I just bought two 840EVO 250GB a couple weeks ago. I have no worries about them lasting a long, long time.

 

[Blupoiz0n]

Worth waiting for the 850 evo? http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/warranty.html
the 840 has 3 years no matter what,
850 evo has 5 years or 75TBW.
Will that be suitable?

Well, I just bought two 840EVO 250GB a couple weeks ago. I have no worries about them lasting a long, long time.

Nice. So your convinced itll last along time?

 

[USAFRet]

Worth waiting for the 850 evo? http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/support/warranty.html
the 840 has 3 years no matter what,
850 evo has 5 years or 75TBW.
Will that be suitable?

Well, I just bought two 840EVO 250GB a couple weeks ago. I have no worries about them lasting a long, long time.

Nice. So your convinced itll last along time?

Yes.

 

[brahmoone]

Well, I just bought two 840EVO 250GB a couple weeks ago. I have no worries about them lasting a long, long time.

Nice. So your convinced itll last along time?

Yes.

And how is it today? How much TBW? What's the SMART status?

Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

Well, I just bought two 840EVO 250GB a couple weeks ago. I have no worries about them lasting a long, long time.

Nice. So your convinced itll last along time?

Yes.

And how is it today? How much TBW? What's the SMART status?

Thanks!

Now...3 1/5 years later...
CrystalDiskInfo of one of my Samsungs:

 

[brahmoone]

Now...3 1/5 years later...
CrystalDiskInfo of one of my Samsungs:

Nice! Hey, that's just 4.2TBW out of 36k hours. Looks pretty tiny for the duration.

Did you move your browser cache to another drive?

EDIT: Oh it's not the boot drive is it?

Seems like I don't need my 850 PRO 256GB, downgrading to a cheaper 120GB Sammy

 

[USAFRet]

Nice! Hey, that's just 4.2TBW out of 36k hours. Looks pretty tiny for the duration.

Did you move your browser cache to another drive?

EDIT: Oh it's not the boot drive is it?

Seems like I don't need my 850 PRO 256GB, downgrading to a cheaper 120GB Sammy

My current boot drive is a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB.

Downgrade from the Pro to the EVO, but do NOT go as small as the 120GB.

 

[USAFRet]

My current house systems are all SSD only.

My main system is 5 SSD's. ~45TBW total of the 5 drives.

 

[brahmoone]

My current house systems are all SSD only.
My main system is 5 SSD's. ~45TBW total of the 5 drives.

Whoa, 5 SSDs in a system sure is a luxury.

I do have couple of i5 and i7 laptops with SSD-only, with Evo 500GB and Micron 500GB (this one is a company laptop, but this stuff don't seem to have written bytes in SMART status). Only run the Evo 500GB for a year, barely using it hence ~1.5TBW and eventually sold it, as I never use that laptop anymore.

To be honest apart from additional 1-2 seconds when launching Chrome, I didn't see any major improvements from those laptops running only SSDs. And I can wait for games to load. Most games are huge pak files and loading them from SSD didn't seem to give major difference.

My Win7 desktop only have 0.5TBW over a year with the 850 PRO. I'm estimating my Win10 desktop to be higher at 1TBW/year. Both only uses 50-60GB on the SSDs.

 

[elionli]

19TBW and 9090 hours still working like a charm 😍

 

[insertcointocontinue]

56 TBW in just over 3+ years in a 24/7 home media server, it was totally worth the $180 when I bought it.