For those of you who think that SSDs wear out easily
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 12:26 pm
This is an urban legend. It was thought that SSDs would be able to wear out when first gen drives came on the market but it never became a real issue.
This press release is for a PCI SSD but they are the exact same memory chips that are in a 2.5 SATA SSD. 10 Petabytes of writes is a HUGE amount of data and the average user will never come anywhere near this (Even in a server environment 10PB of writes is extremely rare).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6928/micr ... c-pcie-ssd
This press release is for a PCI SSD but they are the exact same memory chips that are in a 2.5 SATA SSD. 10 Petabytes of writes is a HUGE amount of data and the average user will never come anywhere near this (Even in a server environment 10PB of writes is extremely rare).
The P420m is rated for 10PB of total drive writes (~4 drive fills per day for 5 years)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6928/micr ... c-pcie-ssd