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SSD read and write lifespan

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Hi Guys

So i have not kept up in regards to PC technology lately, but i do recall sometime ago, when SSDs where originally released people had encountered errors on their drives because of read and write cycles being maxed and causing issues.

Apologies i know this sounds stupid as i cannot recall the exact terminology for what occurred, but what i would like to know is today with more modern SSDs, 2 years back roughly, what is the current read and write life cycle of an SSD.

Like buying second hand 500Gb SSD, that has 3Tb of write, am i buying something thats breaking soon so to speak?
 
If you look at the samsung 960 evo, i think it has a write life span of 400+TB so as long as the current write lvl's aren't crazy, it should be good to go
 
If you look at the samsung 960 evo, i think it has a write life span of 400+TB so as long as the current write lvl's aren't crazy, it should be good to go

Thanks for this bud!

Is there anywhere i can check to see the average write span of an SSD?
 
Yeah - the technology of SSD's had made leaps and bounds in terms of maturity - and very quickly - read write limits used to be a thing - but most people dont really take notice anymore unless its for servers.

I had a friend who had 2 Corsair Neutrons for like ..... 6-7 years in Raid .... they SSD's died before they ever reached their read write limits.
 

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