Even though your SSD will likely have a longer lifespan than its TBW rating, it doesn't mean you should carelessly push your SSD to its breaking point. On the contrary, given the current market situation, you should be taking extra good care of your SSD.
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pjmelect However, there is a common misconception that when SSD exceeds its TBW rating, it will immediately stop working or become unusable. In reality, the TBW value is simply a guideline that manufacturers establish for warranty coverage. The statistical-based rating is not a definitive indicator of when the drive will fail. Contrary to popular belief, If I remember correctly did not Intel SSD.s stop working when the TBW limit was reached. Reply
edzieba It would seem that the user created a workload that kept making cached writes to the SSD. So an entire article on NAND wear, and a mere hint of an implication that the "1 petabyte of writes" never actually touched the NAND: the user running the test created a tool that would send a write to the DRAM cache on the drive that would be flushed before the NAND was written. Physical wear from NAND erase cycles is irreverent here, as no physical wear occurred in the first place. Reply
Jabberwocky79 I will need my NVMe drives to last this long before I can afford to replace them LOL Reply
King_V edzieba said: So an entire article on NAND wear, and a mere hint of an implication that the "1 petabyte of writes" never actually touched the NAND: the user running the test created a tool that would send a write to the DRAM cache on the drive that would be flushed before the NAND was written. Physical wear from NAND erase cycles is irreverent here, as no physical wear occurred in the first place. Yeah, I was wondering about that – the still-shot on the video reads like it's saying "no writes ever touched the NAND flash." So, doesn't that mean no wear and tear even occurred? Reply
IntelUser2000 I dislike these hype articles that really is irrelevant in reality for 99.9% of people. SSDs fail mostly because the electronics and the firmware fail, not due to overwrite on the NAND. My X25-M, Lenovo Thinkpad's M.2 SATA SSD, my brother's Adata SSD, all failed well, and far before it reached even 1/2 of rated endurance cycles. It probably wasn't even 10% for any of them. Electronics fail all the time. People shouldn't fool themselves into thinking getting an SSD with high write cycles will make it last 50+ years. And mostly likely they'll fail because they cheap out on the components and also push the spec for marketing teams and run them too hot. Most failures will happen in the 5-7 year range. Even devices that are properly designed and don't run hot fail sometimes too. Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/16-year-old-sata-ii-ssd-survives-1-petabyte-of-writes-25x-over-the-drives-tbw-rating#main
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