How aged is my SSD? (First time user)

[computerdude92]

How many writes are left for my drive before I should consider discarding it? This is my first ever SSD and I bought it used.

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[lyonadmiral]

How many writes are left for my drive before I should consider discarding it? This is my first ever SSD and I bought it used.

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Don't throw it out until any SSD health app says it is unhealthy.

 

[Stone]

Just like any other drive keep it backed up and toss it when it no longer performs properly.

 

[computerdude92]

I skimmed through an article which claims that after several thousand writes, SSDs can forget new data being written to them.

 

[Agent Orange]

I skimmed through an article which claims that after several thousand writes, SSDs can forget new data being written to them.

It wouldn't keep awake at night worrying about it. That's why you keep backups.

 

[pearce_jj]

Here is the product specs: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/s...ntel_SSD_520_Series_Product_specification.pdf

"The SSD will have a minimum of five years of useful life under typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day."

That specification gives us a write endurance of approx. 36TB written, according to the data it's only had 5.5TB so it's about 15% spent from a flash endurance perspective.

 

[computerdude92]

Here is the product specs: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/s...ntel_SSD_520_Series_Product_specification.pdf

"The SSD will have a minimum of five years of useful life under typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day."

That specification gives us a write endurance of approx. 36TB written, according to the data it's only had 5.5TB so it's about 15% spent from a flash endurance perspective.

20GB of host writes per day? So that means I can't copy a file or files larger than 20GB in a single day?

 

[krebizfan]

20GB of host writes per day? So that means I can't copy a file or files larger than 20GB in a single day?

You can write more than an average of 20GB a day but the life span will be correspondingly shorter. Good drive for the normal user who creates few files; bad drive to place in a backup array as a staging area to slower drives or tape.