It was an interesting exercise since the first installment. While the sample size is so low as to be inconsequential, the results continue to support the majority position that SSDs with a good controller are incredibly reliable and will last far longer than many first thought--and much, much longer than the wearout/lifetime indicators would seem to suggest. The 840 Pro in my main workstation has about 10TB of writes over about 2 years. At that rate, if it managed to hit the same level of writes as TR's testbed, that's just shy of half a millennium.
I'm a stickler for redundancy. I don't have any magnetic drives (excluding those serving as a pure backup) running without some sort of mirroring or parity. Most of my important systems even use mirrored SSDs. However, a good SSD is generally reliable enough for me to run them in solo so long as the important data is backed up with some sort of decent schedule. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead. http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead
