SSD Endurance Experiment

[SilverLeaf]

I've always been leery of SSD's because of all the initial problems (firmware) and the reported write limits of the NAND storage. But this very interesting article may change my mind. Granted, it's a small sample, but the results are impressive.

The results of our experiment do, however, point to some more general conclusions about SSDs as a whole. Although only two drives made it to 2PB, all six wrote hundreds of terabytes without issue, vastly exceeding their official endurance specifications. More importantly, the drives all survived far more writes than most users are likely to generate. Typical consumers shouldn't worry about exceeding the endurance of modern SSDs.

Here's the article:

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

 

[Metanis]

And this should only get better as more intelligent write-caching and combining are implemented.

 

[CLC]

Nice little tid bit.

 

[Eagle21]

SSDs made a bad first impression to many people since they were unreliable. But the technology has moved on, reliability has improved, yet many people still cling to that bad first impression.

I've seen similar articles that suggest that SSDs are now much more reliable.

 

[freedomit]

Samsung Evo & Pro drives are great, just stay away from the cheap brands and models

 

[JRDtechnet]

I never buy anything except Samsung controlled SSD. I have a Samsung 830 256gb running my OS right now. I have a Samsung controlled Corsair P128 that I sold that still running like champ & I only recommend and install Samsung SSD. I wouldn't touch a sandforce drive if you gave it to me for free....well maybe I'd use it for a photoshop scratch disk or something like that.