- Apr 20, 2013
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I'm sure this is old news to some of you, but given how often this subject comes up on here, I thought this would be interesting to some:
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
In short, they started long term testing on 6 256Gb SSD's back in 2013. 3 Kingston HyperX's, a Samsung 840, a Samsung 840 Pro, a Corsair Neutron Series GTX and an Intel 335 Series. In short, one of the Kingston's and the 840 Pro are still going after 2 Petabytes of writes. All of the drives lasted well beyond their quoted endurance specs. The other item of note is how the drives handled their failures. It's definitely worth a read.
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
In short, they started long term testing on 6 256Gb SSD's back in 2013. 3 Kingston HyperX's, a Samsung 840, a Samsung 840 Pro, a Corsair Neutron Series GTX and an Intel 335 Series. In short, one of the Kingston's and the 840 Pro are still going after 2 Petabytes of writes. All of the drives lasted well beyond their quoted endurance specs. The other item of note is how the drives handled their failures. It's definitely worth a read.