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
Key considerations
- Investor positioning can change fast
- Volatility remains possible near catalysts
- Macro rates and liquidity can dominate flows
Reference reading
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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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