SSD Endurance -How to Kill An SSD

Today we write all the data to an SSD to test the endurance of modern SSDs

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[arwlyx]

It almost feels like you were listening in to my antics, just yesterday I was wondering how much it'd take to kill a SSD and was getting skeptical over my drives having 10-20 TBW, thank you! 300+ days of testing, crazy effort.

[megamanxtreme]

Thanks for the data gathered, I admire your time and dedication. I'm around 40, near 50 TB, and I was worried that I was reaching that 75TB too fast but it's been 5 years with this 850 EVO, so alll good.

[bob_smite]

Yeah, I was worried how long my SSD in my phone would stay good because I have to constantly delete cache and redownload apps.

[cozza]

What a brilliant video. This deserves a few mill views

[HallonRubus]

I still use an MX100 256 GB as my main disk, 60TB writes, looks like it can stay for a while longer.

[JensenSarpy]

Excellent video! I find it fascinating to see how much endurance SSD's actually have before they can't write anymore. I never knew a 32GB SSD would hit over 200 TBW because every chart says 128GB SSD = 70 TBW, 256 has 128 TBW and 1 TB has 600 TBW rating. It's good to know those charts are completely under-estimating their true TBW.

[ardinouno]

Huge respect to you sir...I just bought samsung evo 860 500gb after watching ur work

[aliesfandiari]

I tested a 2-TB 970 EVO plus. 2100 TB written so far! These things are durable!

[TheFourthWinchester]

Did you check the data integrity though? It might have become unreliable before it hit 210TB as well.
Normal users can hit a few TBs every year just by downloading content and constantly deleting it.

[JohnDoe-elir]

Nice video. Can you make QLC SSD endurance test? I cannot find such test you made but for QLC drive, nowhere

[josephsmith]

This video is amazing. It's so informative. I've had all these questions in mind for years and you've just answered them. I have a Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB. I bought it in 2016. I've written 12 TB on it. Ssd life says that it's at 95 %
health. The official TWB is 65TB.

[hidden-leaf]

thats some serious dedication there, a year 😮

[gaminglinkgamingforlife]

Guys, there is a fact, THIS WAS A DRAM-LESS SSD just imagine how long It Will take to kill a high endurance rating SSD like a Crucial MX500 or a Samsung 860 EVO.

ANAZING.

[clayrichard]

You promised us an endurance test on the Silicone Power SSD.

[juanespinoza]

my 860 evo 500gb has 2.5 tbw i bought it 2 years ago

[Nordern]

I've got 4 Crucial SSD's in RAID 0 as a scratch disk, it's been about a year and i've written 40TB to them apparently, with a rated life remaining of 85%
It's more likely that I'll swap them out for a m.2 array instead of any of them dying
Very interesting results though with the amount of data you managed to write, and when they slowed down!

[leexgx]

Once you get beyond 300-400TB written is where TLC based ssds start to maybe develop problems (generally irrespective of spec endurance) also dramless based have main problem with write amplification as they lack dram to handle the page table and wear leveling information in real time so drive needs to be idle for it to perform them tasks so 200TB written seems OK

Other ssds may have better data redundancy and making sure that data stays intact

I like crucial ssds in the mx line that has the RAIN feature to go beyond just ecc to rebuild data that it can't access, the mx300 was the odd ball as was the only crucial ssds on ebay that had lots of failing indecators in smart with rain been triggered and write and read errors been logged (so I just avoid mx300 second hand or even new due to how many used to be sold on ebay had some sort of problems on them) good to know the bx500 can last as long as a Samsung 840 Pro (admittedly going super slow towards halfway)

[TheXlen]

I've had my 1TB SX8200 PRO for what 6 months now, it's around 20TBW already and I haven't been writing to it that much, I've had a few games installed on it, a few premiere projects, some other stuff...

[leexgx]

But really 200TB written to a 32gb TLC probably reclaimed used nand and dramless ssd is actually very good really, as smaller ssds have less endurance then larger ssds as the nand is physically larger so 64gb ssds can take 2x the total writes a 32gb and so on for 120gb 250, 500gb

Burning out a ssd is norm not a problem but as last post 400tb on smaller ssds is the spot where you might encounter actual data loss errors with TLC sdds

Not sure how detailed your logs was for smart and if you was doing write fill and verification tests to see if it's able to verify the data wasn't been corrupted

[wolfytechs]

Pls check ur old Samsung evo 840 with hdd sentinel how many errors or health level does it have?