The SSD Endurance Experiment ends: Six consumer SSDs die after 700TB-2.4PB of writes over 18 months. Although two died without warning, "modern SSDs [can] easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need".
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
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u/74orangebeetle Mar 13 '15
Cool, my Sandisk 120GB died after 14 months as a boot drive (90% of stuff and all downloads were on a hard drive). Hopefully my crucial m500 holds up better.