SSD Life Expectancy and High Endurance SSDs

In this video we discuss SSD life expectancy and what SSDs last the longest and are best for NAS devices or Storage Servers. If you are looking for an SSD for storage that will last a very long time please watch this video.

We also discuss TBW (Terabytes Written) and DWPD (device/drive writes per day). If you want to know what SSDs will provide the most TBW then watch this video to learn how to search for them.

Pro High Endurance SSD Drives:

Consumer SSD Drives:

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[DrRizzwan]

Holy... this video is packed with info. Cant beleive this is free haha. Thanks. Please do more of these videos.

[BrianGarside]

Thank you. I've Been waiting for a video like this. Not every enterprise capable SSD drive needs a label and you have shown us this. Truly useful information

[Peter-jmzt]

Hi Craig, thanks for sharing all that info.
You reminded me of that saying, ’ A poor man pays twice’.
All the best regards Peter.

[bylucasquinton]

Best and useful video I have ever seen for drives review so far. Cheers Craig, and keep it up!!!

[TurboLoveTrain]

In 2007 I spent months going through MTBF data on SSDs building a business case for Rockwell Collins to migrate all the HDDs to SSDs for cabin system computing.
In flight vibrations were killing the life of the HDDs. Thanks for sharing such valuable information.
I am a fan of Samsung for home use because their cloning software is fantastic.

[madarauchiha]

This is the most informative video I have watched on SSDs. The server edition SSDs are insane when it comes to write endurance. I'm mind blown.

[Michael-itgb]

I'm more interested in life expectency of the drive. Meaning if I just copy my files to an SSD drive and then put it away in a normal heated room temp environment in another box lets say, and then 2 decades later I take it out, put it into the computer and all the files are there with zero bad sectors or anything like that.

[AngeloGero]

Another point to consider when purchasing SSD's for desktop computers is swap file writes which can add up especially when sessions run short of available RAM capacity which is more common than most users realize. (Example: MacBook M1/M2 Air's which are frequently sold with 8 GB of RAM and have non-replaceable SSD's)

[LordAlucar]

i had no clue those drives exist, this certainly opens my eyes why some look the same yet are not, thank you, i may not need profesional drive because i use little data under 300gb per month. keep it up its allways great to learn new things especially with tehnology going up and it gets more confusing with each generation and inflation.

[CAA]

Craig, you have some the most useful content! Thanks!

[MovieGasm]

I have a question, I’m getting a BSOD “boot device inaccessible” it’s a 2 TB Kingston. It’s been having no issues for 1 year 9 months.

I move a few gigs of files on and off of the drive daily. I keep the drive storage low but I do write to it for large video file editing.

Maybe it’s bad, maybe it could be a ram issue. Is there a bootable SSD checker similar to memtest for ram?

[bryans]

Thanks for another great tutorial Craig. I didn't know about the all of the numbers and options I should be looking at when I purchased an SSD.

[joeglennaz]

I can’t believe this video doesn’t have 5000 views.

[nunofreiredossantos]

It's like you read my mind, because I've been checking on SSD theoretical durability, based on TBW, for the last couple of days. I was very much surprised about Kingston's SSD's TBW, as I've found NV2 to have lower TBW (I believe it's 320tbw for a 1Tb hard drive) when compared to some of the competition. With DriveDx I managed to see that the my Mac Mini M1 8Gb of Ram and 512Gb of HD, since I bought it has registered 2, 9Tb written for 203 days and, based on this information, I wasn't so unsatisfied with NV2 (which I was targeting). It seems that, at my office with my working Mac, I average less than 15Gb of written data and, at that rate, the Kingston NV2 I was checking to use for backups will work forever. So, I concluded that one should measure what they need before splashing out more money than they need to, when choosing a SSD.

[Tuccooo]

man thank you so much for your precision you answered every single questions i had

[Zonker]

I've researched information about DC drives for a while, wondering why they're not used much, especially in a NAS where data is rewriten a lot. Saw something recently about TBW/sector. It explained why the endurance went up as the size of the drive went up. 1.4TBW with a 2TB drive and 2.8TBW with a 4TB drive... but no one seems to cover that and it took me ages to find myself. EDIT: Learned about SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC... Single, Multi. Tri, Quad... essentially 1-4 bits/cell, from what I can gather. The newer one (QLC) is faster, but the older ones seem far better at Endurance. Hope you talked/have talked about this. Also, that 90s music blast in the intro makes the channel seem amateurish... you're better than that, sir.

[VintageSG]

Just to add a caveat. I use Linux. I selected EXT2 for my drives when I switched over from spinning discs. All well and good. I went with EXT2 to avoid the additional writes journaling brings.
No SMART errors for two years, then I got an alert. A warning, not catastrophic. My boot and OS drive was fine. However, my home drive had reached 75% write life expectancy. I neglected to add the 'noatime' switch to the fstab file. That's on me.
Even the act of reading a configuration file on program startup updated the table as the file had been accessed, the 'atime' was updated, which equals writes.
There are a lot of small files being read from and written to. Write to the file?, a write ( obv. ), the atime gets updated, which would be written at the same time. Access the file, even reading it, and the atime gets updated. Updating that one byte requires a write.
Setting noatime in the fstab doesn't disable mtime or ctime attributes, but it does reduce the write amplification.
The drives in question are Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5" models. I'm still using the boot drive, but have retired the home drive as an archive, replaced it, and set noatime 🙂
The boot and OS drive has a 4.5 year power on time with 44% lifetime remaining. Not bad.

[hidefsteve]

I had no idea about this. Very informative, thanks.

[irwantirta]

TBW is my main focus when looking for ssd

[fieryd]

is DRAM a essential feature for the life span of a ssd? is a ssd without dram bad or are there other important features besides dram?