Mein Gott! The Samsung 850 PRO achieved 9,100,000 GB of writes before crapping out!
(German source)
Let’s say you write 50 GB on a Samsung 850 PRO SSD per day … yup, that drive will THEORETICALLY last about 500 years LOL! This seems too good to be true. Can anyone that can read German verify this?
Yeah I can read some german, so I didn’t use an online translator and any errors that might induce.
12 drives had actually been tested, and only the best performing drive achieved 9.1PByte.
The reason for the test was concerns amongst consumers that only a limited number of cycles are guaranteed by the manufacturer. Causing concerns of increased perfomance vs limited product lifetime.
2 examples of each of the products listed in the article had been tested.
The test started on June 22nd, 2016
By december 2016, 9 of the originally 12 SSD’s had failed. However, they all met the guaranteed amount of cycles before crapping out.
I can conclude from context that the remaining drives are the pair of Samsung 850 pro’s and one of the SanDisk Extreme Pro drives.
The 2nd SanDisk Extreme Pro is presumed KIA because of a power surge and not by flash degradation.
The poorest performer was the Crucials 200x wich wrote 187 and 250TB of data, two-and-a-half times the guaranteed amount.
The samsung EVO 750 was the best perfoming SSD in the budget model class, writing 1.2PB of data (No % given).
No Pro model performed worse than 2.2PB
The Samsung that achieved 9,1PB achieved the guaranteed amount x 60
There is supposedly more info in a linked article that is pay-to-read
And yes, SSDs have let their slightly unreliable past behind them. Even cheap ones by far exceeded the guaranteed values.
Those are values that match - and exceed - those of regular hard disks.
So basically the only things speaking for regular hard disks are