“A large study of drive endurance found that most drives had used less than 15% of their predicted lifetime endurance. Drives simply don’t get used enough to wear out in most enterprise installations.”
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Much less scientific but every January I do a clean of my homeland and check the drives.
Oldest SSD I have is 9 years old, has a powered on time of 67000 hours and has consumed 15% of its write life.
My homelab is for testing backup and recover tech. So I do a lot of writes.
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I recall the hand wringing and emotional cries of
‘SSD doesn’t have the durability” and it turned out to be bullocks. Just about everything that storage folks get bent about turns out to be refusal to change.
Inversely, noone in their right mind would buy a used drive with 85% lifetime remaining because of the performance degradation.
mega companies. Be fair, SSDs have improve a lot in the last 12 years. I have a lingering fear that powered off ssds ( i am talking years) suffer gama hits and loose data. They ate as susceotable to radiation as DRAM. An HDD is fine powered off. Powered on SSD repairs itself
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