The Gun Counter

Just in case this is of interest; a fellow put up a page with calculations and 'worst case' graphs for how long an SSD might live in use. By his admission his graphs are based on high quality devices, not the lower line consumer grade units.

SSDs have a limited life expectancy because they 'wear out' as the 'cells' are erased and rewritten. Recent quality devices apparently are rated for 100,000 writes, with new ones expected to reach 1,000,000 writes before failure.

Article here

Oh, thumb drives. Interesting article. Although I've been carrying a cheap 2G Sansdisk in my pocket for over two years. But, I don't use it every day, nor even a couple of times per week. It's where I keep things that I might need to reference, but not store on a hard drive.

With the utter crap of disk based hard drives out there these days, storage is a crapshoot.

PawPaw wrote:Oh, thumb drives. Interesting article. Although I've been carrying a cheap 2G Sansdisk in my pocket for over two years. But, I don't use it every day, nor even a couple of times per week. It's where I keep things that I might need to reference, but not store on a hard drive.

No, I think this is about the internal SSD drives, replacement for the rotating rust drives of yore.

Yogimus wrote:With the utter crap of disk based hard drives out there these days, storage is a crapshoot.

I've got 21 year old drives that are still in 24x7 operation. Not heavy use but running all the time. And the more recent systems are all running server class SCSI drives. So far 8 years old and no failures though they aren't on 24x7 (at home, too expensive and too much power, and except in the winter, too much heat). But I don't need the level of storage that some people do.

But yeah, a lot of the consumer grade disks are crap, but a lot of the consumer grade SSDs are also crap.