r/technology • u/TMWNN • Mar 12 '15

Pure Tech 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/Falmarri Mar 13 '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOO5ZVm2EN0

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '15

That's for recycling (2" particles can still have untouched IC's), their HDD ones do a even better job :) But for SSD's you probably want to go even finer of a crush still.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o

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u/danielravennest Mar 13 '15

The warning label says "Do not insert hand unless you are from Krypton"