TBW - Tera Bytes Written

[bybandla]

Yes, the doubt that i got today is "What is TBW?".

Situation: I want to buy an SSD and i opted for "Samsung 860 EVO SATA 250GB" because i'm using ECS H81H3-M4 Motherboard. And when i'm reading the review, i noticed that the TBW is different and low compared to other models i.e., NVMe, M.2.

Is that will be any issue to use?
I want to use this SSD for Bootup speed, Photoshop, Illustrator, Aftereffects, Premiere Pro and for some Games to maintaining no hangs in middle.

I was thinking to keep this to install Applications, Programs and my Hard disk for Data Storage.

 

[derekullo]

According to
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-evo-ssd-review,5446.html

The drive has a write endurance of 150 terabytes.

The more nand the drive has to work with the more data it can write before the nand wears out.

Moving to a drive twice the size, 500 gigabytes gives us a 300 terabytes write endurance. (Just keep doubling it for each double in drive capacity)

How much in drive writes do you do per month?

 

[bybandla]

According to
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-evo-ssd-review,5446.html

The drive has a write endurance of 150 terabytes.

The more nand the drive has to work with the more data it can write before the nand wears out.

Moving to a drive twice the size, 500 gigabytes gives us a 300 terabytes write endurance. (Just keep doubling it for each double in drive capacity)

How much in drive writes do you do per month?

I'm not a guy who write's 5TB mostly in a year.

 

[derekullo]

The Samsung EVO drives have super fast writes until you reach the limit of the TurboWrite cache, which for the 250 gigabyte model appears to be 12.5 gigabytes.

https://img.purch.com/860-evo-250gb-png/o/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9TLzIvNzQ2MjEwL29yaWdpbmFsLzg2MF9FVk9fMjUwR0IucG5n

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-evo-ssd-review,5446-4.html

If you want a model without this TurboWrite "feature" and is just always fast no matter how many writes you do you will need a Samsung 860 Pro model.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-pro-ssd-review,5434-2.html


Either one, EVO or PRO. can do the job depending how many writes you do at one time.

Do note that this 12.5 gigabyte limit is for writes and not reads.

Once a game is installed it should be buttery smooth ... at least from the storage point of view.


We really need a total of how big your projects are before we can give a recommendation.

If your designing software writes 100 gigabytes at a time then the 250 gigabyte Samsung EVO probably isn't the best solution

 

[USAFRet]

In normal use (you and I), the TBW number is simply a number for the warranty. You will never reach it.

Generally, smaller drives have a smaller TBW for the warranty number.

And, any good quality drive will go far, far past that TBW number.
Regular consumer grade drives. (840 EVO, for instance), have gone past 1PB in actual torture testing.

The 860 EVO you've chosen is a top quality drive.

 

[bybandla]

Thanks guys.

 

[bybandla]

Can anyone explain this please?
Open this link and see the image, https://ibb.co/eLZ3Xq

 

[USAFRet]

Can anyone explain this please?
Open this link and see the image, https://ibb.co/eLZ3Xq

Easily explained by you having Samsung RAPID mode enabled.
That uber speed is actually reading your RAM speed, not the drive.

 

[bybandla]

Can anyone explain this please?
Open this link and see the image, https://ibb.co/eLZ3Xq

Easily explained by you having Samsung RAPID mode enabled.
That uber speed is actually reading your RAM speed, not the drive.

Is there any Pros or Cons by using this Rapid mode?
I don't want to go through youtube for solution because i was misguided to buy a GT 730 4GB ddr3 graphic card for gaming in this generation and that too, one month before. 🙁 And i simply wasted 7,000/- rupees around on that.

 

[USAFRet]

Can anyone explain this please?
Open this link and see the image, https://ibb.co/eLZ3Xq

Easily explained by you having Samsung RAPID mode enabled.
That uber speed is actually reading your RAM speed, not the drive.

Is there any Pros or Cons by using this Rapid mode?
I don't want to go through youtube for solution because i was misguided to buy a GT 730 4GB ddr3 graphic card for gaming in this generation and that too, one month before. 🙁 And i simply wasted 7,000/- rupees around on that.

I tried RAPID for a while. I saw no real performance benefit, so I turned it off.