How Much Longer Will Your SSD Last? How to Tell

It might have a lot more life left than you think!

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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Factors for Endurance
2:22 - Endurance Specs
3:20 - Finding Your SSD's TBW
5:58 - SSD Health Status
6:46 - After Max TBW

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[ThioJoe]

Correction: The 970 Evo Plus actually used TLC, but that just proves my point even more about improved technology.

[janferenc]

I switched to a SSD October last year when my 11 year old hard drive failed. I still can't believe the speed difference

[turbomeows]

Its weird how your channel is now a legitimate source of information because I remember your old videos lol

[jerryfacts]

When I was working in support for a large company, in my section I was supporting over a hundred of computers. They were changing the computers every 3 to 4 years. They were using standard medium cost SSDs. After about two years I was seeing about a 3% failure rate. During the 4th year I was seeing maybe a 5% failure. These computers were used many hours per day. Most of the work was for writing spread sheets and text documents. During work breaks and lunch hours many of the users were watching videos, and going on social media.

[Tarwada_]

my laptop's ssd has been alive for about 10 years or a bit less and it's still working. people, don't worry yourself about ssd's lifespan

[someoneoncesaid]

Something to consider with SSD drives is to get the largest capacity that you can and don't fill it up. The larger percentage of the drive you fill up, the less space it'll have to spread around new writes. So, if you get a 1TB drive and put 900GB of files on it that's reasonably static, then have a process that reads/writes a lot of data (like a system swap file) to the remaining 100GB left, it's going to wear out a lot faster than if you started with a 2TB drive and has 1.1TB of free space to spread those writes around.

[captainkuijt]

I think most people severely underestimate the lifespan of an SSD. I'm using a Kingston 480GB HyperX SSD. This has been my main drive since 2013. It's by no means a new SSD with all the latest technology. In fact, this was back when SSDs were finally becoming mainstream. It has gone through six Windows reinstallations and countless big-sized games being installed and uninstalled. It's still working just as well as it did ten years ago!

[theonlybilge]

I remember hearing around two years ago from (I think) a high school computing teacher that a good idea was to have extremely long term backup/storage be an HDD, especially since they typically have greater capacity than SSDs and they can give signs that they're starting to fail, but for usability (since they're so fast) you should use an SSD as your actual main drive.

[hussein_]

I was just searching for the same title of this video when yours popped out !!!
That is insane 😯🤪

[maxpayne.]

ProTip:
You should probably use a small persistent ramdisk (using something like IMDisk) for your browsers & especially if you love to have tons of tabs open or stream a lot.
FF for example can write 50-90GB per day unknown to you just by having various tabs open or steaming because it’s continuously writing to the cache folder & profile folder (lots of sqlite files).
I once found that my SSD got 3TB written just in about 2 months & reads had increased by 25TB!
Migrating browser data to a ramdisk brought it down to 5-8GB/day.

[ewanmcdonagh]

My first SSD was a Drevo 256gb one, it lasted about 3 months and I wrote just a few terabytes to it. I’ve used other brands ever since just for my own piece of mind and my Crucial is still going strong

[runforitman]

Thank you for telling me about this
my main media drive has a caution so im now backing it up in preparation to replace it
A new drive is cheaper than data recovery

[pendant_animations]

You have given me more information than the writings in the ssd's . Wow . Love your work . Keep updating us.

[JosephM]

My first-ever SSD was a Samsung 850 EVO that I got back in Christmas 2014 as a gift to upgrade my laptop. Never before had I seen boot speeds so fast! I still have the drive and it still works great. Not using it as my main drive anymore, but for transferring/storing large files portably, it's very useful.

[saifullahsajjad]

I was literally researching ALL of this last night and then this video comes out today 😂

[norfintorkjoe]

Checked my 850 Pro and it had used 50TBW of 75TBW. Thanks for the awesome tips - ordered a replacement 870 EVO 1TB with 600TBW today! Winning!

[williampaabreeves]

Im still using an MX100 and BX100, both MLC SSDs from 2015. They have been incredibly resilient and outperform newer QLC SSDs for latency

[Efebur]

my ssd was almost at its max TBW when this video came out and the drive is still running. it's miraculous.

[_SJ]

The only YouTube channel I decided to join 🙂

[michaelgrauvogl]

I have the same old Samsung SSD (850 pro 1tb) inside my PC. Few years ago i read a article about this drive. They tested how much TBW is possible. The first one broke after 3000TBW and the second one after 9000TBW. So 1000% to 3000% more than Samsung told us :)