You can already imagine that the Solid State Devices (SSD) have a very limited lifespan, according to the amount of information that is stored in each unit. In some cases they can be used for several years. One myth that still makes consumers wary of buying SSDs is the story that drives have a short lifespan, due to the working nature of flash memories, which have limited write cycles. But… is it true? Check out the article in full! 😉
Let's get straight to the point: this is not true. Even if you are a more advanced user, an SSD device will continue to work for many, many years. To prove this claim, the portal “The Tech Report” performed an endurance test, with more accurate figures of its performance.
Five models were analyzed in the test: Corsair Neutron GTX, Kingston HyperX 3K, Samsung 840, Samsung 840 Pro and Intel 335 Series, all with capacities of 240 GB or 256 GB. The test consisted of writing data sequentially to the drive until the drive failed. The two best-performing SSDs were the model kingston HyperX 3K and the Samsung 840 Pro: they can easily pass the 2 Petabytes (2,000 TB) mark of data written before they start to fail.
In the case of the best SSDs, which exceed 2 PB of written data, suffice it to say that if you have a very heavy use and are able to write and erase 256 GB of data per day, the drive would continue to work for 8,192 days, that is. , approximately 22 years. With that in mind, don't worry about spending your SSD, because chances are you've already upgraded by 2037.
In the case of the others, the performance was relatively acceptable, such as: Corsair Neutron GTX (1.2 PB), Samsung 840 (900 TB) and Intel 335 Series (700 TB). To give you an idea, Intel estimates the lifespan of its drive to be 3 years with an average of 20GB of data written per day, which would result in just 22TB of data written, or just 3% of what the SSD was able to reach.
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