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? Those drives are quite old now.
Anyway, I’m not taking anyone’s word for “the drive will wear out at this exact TBW line” because the 2015 and 2017 study data says otherwise. If someone has new, concrete 2021 data, I’m all ears. But show me the data.
(Also, buy Samsung. There are some very crap drives out there. Samsung has been an absolute rock for me, and in our datacenter hosting. Look up the Puget system data. It’s incredible. The Samsung SSDs were MORE RELIABLE THAN THE INTEL CPUS!)