Decay on 980 Pro 1TB SSD

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Thank you – I need to also create a post citing the incredible real world results people have gotten from MUCH older SSDs writing petabytes to them… that post is here

Does Chia Plotting kill your NVME drives?

Prior art on this: 2015, using 250gb SSDs: TL;DR Samsung’s 840 Series 250GB – survived to 900TB write Samsung’s 840 Pro 256GB – survived to 2400TB write AND THAT 840 NON-PRO IS A CRAPPY LOW END VALUE TLC DRIVE! Look up the manufacturer’s rated write endurance for the drive. That model. It is 72TB. Now look at what it actually delivered. 900TB. And here, an 850 Pro survived to 9100TB writes. I would assume manufacturers have gotten even better at this since Ye Olde 850 and 840 series? …