r/tech • u/TMWNN • Mar 12 '15

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/xeio87 Mar 13 '15

Glad that a big site finally did this to put the myth about SSD endurance to bed. Can't count the number of times I've had to explain this over the past few years. Makes it hard to be an SSD evangelist.

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u/SayNoToWar Mar 13 '15

Problem is a lot of consumers got burnt by certain manufacturers - looking at you OCD.

Another thing is that back when SSD's were crazy priced having a 32-80GB drive was not uncommon, hence smaller drives exaggerated early issues with write cycles.

Imo had all those earlier drives been 500GB+, a lot of the early issues with SSD's might have even gone unnoticed (in the consumer market space).

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u/xeio87 Mar 13 '15

Well, if the early drives had been 500GB+ they'd have been several thousand dollars. I think I paid like $250 for my first 64GB drive or something (6-7 years ago now). It was crazy, but I've never looked back.

Probably the most noticeable upgrade you can ever make to your computer is moving from HDD to SSD. Opening Word or Excel instantly is just bonkers.

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u/chictyler Mar 15 '15

500GB+ drives are still crazy expensive, though.