In fact, there’s a good chance you’ll die before your SSD dies of wear. You’ll probably be done with the drive well before then. It’s unlikely you’ll write that much data to the drive every single day. At 2 PB, you could write 100 GB a day to the drive every single day for over 54 years before the drive failed. The fact that the 840 Pro exceeded 2.4PB is nothing short of amazing, even if that achievement is also kind of academic.”Įven at 700TB, the lowest failure threshold, you could write 100 GB a day to the drive every single day for over 19 years before the drive failed. Errors didn’t strike the Samsung 840 Series until after 300TB of writes, and it took over 700TB to induce the first failures. “Over the past 18 months, we’ve watched modern SSDs easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need. Tech Report ran an 18-month-long stress test where they wrote as much data to SSDs as possible to see when they failed. RELATED: It's Time: Why You Need to Upgrade to an SSD Right Nowīut worries about SSD wear are overblown. Guides assert that you should try to avoid unnecessary wear on the SSD by minimizing the amount of writes. That’s because each cell of flash memory on the drive only has a limited number of writes before it can’t be written to anymore. Much of the advice on “optimizing” Windows for an SSD involves reducing the amount of writes to the SSD. There are a lot of guides out there about optimizing your SSD, but we don’t recommend following most of them. Some of the advice is outdated, and some of it was never necessary. SSDs Aren’t as Small or Fragile as They Used to Be
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