Oh, I mentioned that TLC SSDs supposedly were thought to only last for
1000 erase cycles, but the particular Samsung model I was referring to
(840 non-Pro) seems to do a lot better!
These people killed one after 24,000 erase cycles and 3 petabytes of writes:
http://www.vojcik.net/samsung-ssd-840-endurance-destruct-test/
If we use 24000 as the cycle count, then with just 13 on the clock so
far, machine #2 is going to last 386217 years before wearing out :)

Machine #1 is using MLC so maybe it'll get to 500 years? :)

On 16 January 2015 at 14:22, Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm curious to know what your SSD wear indicators look like, from
> long-running Linux machines, and how long it looks like they'll last
> based on existing usage.
> You can query these with smartctl (if your drive db is too old, run
> sudo update-smart-drivedb first)
>
> I'll go first. These are just private machines, albeit ones doing
> reasonable work. Perhaps at some point in the future I'll be able to
> report on long-term results of enterprise SSDs, but I can't right now.
>
> Machine one:
>   Power_On_Hours                4522 (188 days)
>   Total_NAND_Writes_GiB    18846
>   Maximum_Erase_Cycle      199
>   Avg_Write_Erase_Ct           74
>   Total_Bad_Block                 201
>   Perc_Avail_Resrvd_Space 100
> This machine has been running for over 188 days non-stop, has logged
> nearly 19 TB of writes, and is about 2.5% of the way through it's
> expected minimum lifespan[1].
> Estimated total lifespan time: 20.6 years.
>
> Machine two:
>   Power_On_Hours              18326 (763 days)
>   Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot  0
>   Wear_Leveling_Count       13
>   Total_LBAs_Written           2066747494  (ie. about 1080 GiB [2])
> This has been running for 763 days non-stop. Like the first machine,
> it hasn't used any of the reserved blocks yet.  It's about 1.3% of the
> way through its min expected lifespan.[3]
> Estimated total lifespan time: 160 years.
>
> -Toby
>
> 1: ie. 3000 write/erase cycles for MLC; in practice you seem to get
> quite a bit more though, according to testers.
> 2: This drive doesn't report the actual NAND writes, just LBAs
> written, but you can roughly convert those out; call each LBA 512
> bytes, and then multiply the total by a conservative 1.1 to allow for
> write-amplification; we come up with about 1080 gigabytes.
> 3: This machine is running a cheaper type of TLC-based SSD, so
> theoretical amount of erase/write cycles are just 1000.



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