The SSD endurance test: They're all dead!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

  http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

The first lesson came quickly. All of the drives surpassed their official endurance specifications by writing hundreds of terabytes without issue. Delivering on the manufacturer-guaranteed write tolerance wouldn't normally be cause for celebration, but the scale makes this achievement important. Most PC users, myself included, write no more than a few terabytes per year. Even 100TB is far more endurance than the typical consumer needs.

[zack1234]

Its a myth

[Skuzzy]

I do a 100TB's of writes in a weekend, easy.  Yes, I know I am the odd man out and very few people would be beating a storage system up like I do.  Damn 4K video standards.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I do a 100TB's of writes in a weekend, easy.  Yes, I know I am the odd man out and very few people would be beating a storage system up like I do.  Damn 4K video standards.

You have a pretty beefy storage system then as you'd be doing 578Mb/s of writes 24 hours a day flat. Most platter disk systems struggle to reach 100mb/s.

[Skuzzy]

I guess I was being too subtle.  Although, I could have swore I put the smiley in there.  My bad.

It takes a week or two to do 100TB's.  It depends on what I am rendering.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I guess I was being too subtle.  Although, I could have swore I put the smiley in there.  My bad.

It takes a week or two to do 100TB's.  It depends on what I am rendering.

I just sensed a hint of exaggeration there

[Skuzzy]

I just sensed a hint of exaggeration there

I certainly hope so.

[2bighorn]

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

My RAID10 arrays do roughly 1PB per year each. If built with SSDs, they'd be dead in less than a year. Last rebuild was over 3.5 years ago, with only 2 (out of 16) HDD failures since then.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

My RAID10 arrays do roughly 1PB per year each. If built with SSDs, they'd be dead in less than a year. Last rebuild was over 3.5 years ago, with only 2 (out of 16) HDD failures since then.

And that has nothing to do with the fact that an average user may never do a petabyte of writes in his life. In general daily use their life expectancy (if counting only memory cell degradation and not other electrical failures) is longer than the persons lifetime.

[captain1ma]

working for a health care insurance company, I found the ssd harddrives failed a little more then I liked. I was leary to use the although I know 
my system would be much faster for it!

[MrRiplEy[H]]

working for a health care insurance company, I found the ssd harddrives failed a little more then I liked. I was leary to use the although I know 
my system would be much faster for it!

The early models had software bugs that killed them in bundles. Those are past history already.