Question one SSD for life

[Pextaxmx]

I feel like my 10 year old SSD is going to last as long as myself...(or the SATA standard, whichever comes first) This SSD was purchased in 2012 and moved from one system to another and worked as my OS drive. Zero error experienced and as snappy as modern NVMe drives. Samsung SSDs from that era seem to be very robust.

 

[SkyNetRising]

It looks like most of the time it has been sitting in a drawer.
Power on hours ~ 2 years (not 10).
Only 16TB written.

About normal OS drive usage for 2 years. Very conservative workload for 10 years.

 

[Pextaxmx]

It looks like most of the time it has been sitting in a drawer.
Power on hours ~ 2 years (not 10).
Only 16TB written.

About normal OS drive usage for 2 years. Very conservative workload for 10 years.

Not my work computers so yes... the PCs were in sleep mode during working hours and nights. But I think this is about average work load a "personal" computer would take. No?

 

[USAFRet]

Not my work computers so yes... the PCs were in sleep mode during working hours and nights. But I think this is about average work load a "personal" computer would take. No?

My current C drive, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro, has 8.3TB written in 4761 hours. Running 24/7 mostly, drive installed Dec 2021.

 

[Colif]

It seems strange it has no host reads, especially as C drive.
It doesn't seem to make any sense that nothing has ever been read off the drive..
mines only 2 years old & those 2 totals about the same on mine.

 

[Pextaxmx]

It seems strange it has no host reads, especially as C drive.
It doesn't seem to make any sense that nothing has ever been read off the drive..
mines only 2 years old & those 2 totals about the same on mine.

It just does not count it. TB read number is unknown. Not zero

 

[fzabkar]

The Wear Levelling Count is 0x119, so the amount of writes to NAND must be 77 TB:

https://ipv4.google.com/search?q=0x119+x+256+GiB+in+GB

The total host writes is only 16.7 TB, so the write amplification is around 5:1. That's very poor by today's standards.

 

[Pextaxmx]

The Wear Levelling Count is 0x119, so the amount of writes to NAND must be 77 TB:

https://ipv4.google.com/search?q=0x119+x+256+GiB+in+GB

The total host writes is only 16.7 TB, so the write amplification is around 5:1. That's very poor by today's standards.

In early days I had this drive almost full all the time with no OP space. That might have contributed towards the bad amplification.

 

[Pextaxmx]

Btw, a 256gb SSD was a luxury back then. I think I paid 200 usd. 64 Gb was very common. 32Gb existed too

When I saw my SSD was 50% full. I felt like throwing 100 dollars out the window. So I was making sure the drive was nearly full all the time LOL what an idiot I was

 

[Colif]

64 Gb was very common. 32Gb existed too

back in the day, when ssd were used as cache drives for the most part. Your 256gb was equal to a 16tb ssd now, almost out of reach of most users and really expensive now. Not out yet but possibly cost $USD 1500.00

Most people got 32gb and used it with intel rapid storage technology software to act as a cache drive for a hdd. It was only when 128gb ssd were cheaper that people could use an ssd for windows only. As sizes grew, the need for the hdd went away for most part.