Intel SSD 760p Review: The New NVMe Value Leader

[mapesdhs]

"...but we don't recommend even light professional applications due to the relatively low endurance rating."

If it can't handle that kind of workload then I wouldn't want to use it for anything. On the SATA side, an 850 EVO is more than good enough for "light professional applications"; heck, I know solo pro types who are still crunching away on desktops built with Samsung 830s.

 

[AgentLozen]

Cryoburner addressed this earlier in the article:

The 512GB drive you tested allows for 288TB to be written to it. At 10GB of writes per day, it would take someone nearly 80 years to hit that amount of writes to the drive. In order to hit that amount of writes within the drive's 5-year warranty, one would need to write close to 160GB to it every single day, 7 days a week for those 5 years. Unless the system were being used in some extreme usage scenario, the differences in endurance between any of these drives shouldn't matter much at all.

I could see a particularly heavy user potentially running into the write limit of the lowest capacity 128GB drive, since you would only need to write about 40GB per day to hit that within 5 years, but for any of the other capacities it seems fairly unlikely. And I would still not classify 40GB of writes per day as "light" professional use.

I'm on board with this analysis. I received a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO last year and since then I've only written about 350 GB to it. Realistically, the 760p's endurance is adequate for 99% of users.