[Techreport]The SSD Endurance Experiment: 200TB update

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Being inquisitive types, we've decided to seek answers ourselves. We've concocted a long-term test that will track a handful of modern SSDs-the Corsair Neutron Series GTX, Intel 335 Series, Kingston HyperX 3K, and Samsung 840 and 840 Pro Series-as they're hammered with an unrelenting torrent of data over the coming weeks and months. And we won't stop until they're all dead. Welcome to the SSD Endurance Experiment.

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We last checked in on our subjects after 22TB of writes, which works out to 20GB per day for three years. There was no drama to report at the time. However, we've now written 200TB to the drives, and the first cracks are starting to show.

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We tested the SSDs after 100TB of writes and again after 200TB, and they were pretty much as fast as they were fresh out of the box. The differences between our original scores and the results after 200TB work out to 2% or less:

So concludes the latest chapter in our SSD Endurance Experiment. Already, we've demonstrated that modern SSDs can absorb an awful lot of writes without suffering ill effects. The Samsung 840 Series is spitting out an increasing number of bad blocks, though. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next 100TB and beyond. Everything we've learned thus far suggests we'll be at this for a while.

For reference, this is how much I have written on my 840 Pro in 9 month, It would take me 42 years to write 200TB

[Techreport]The SSD Endurance Experiment: 200TB update

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