[kwlug-disc] SSD life

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Ron,

If you are backing it regularly, then keep it going. As you say, it is only
a few hours
of restore on a new device if it finally dies.

In my case ...
I have not seen SATA SSDs (that I own) having an Endurance TDW
specification,
and don't report one in smartctl. Maybe because they are really old?

The M.2 NVMe SSDs do have them, and most have a TDW of 600TB for the 1TB.
That is for the consumer versions, not the enterprise ones.

If I search for "X specs" (replace X by the model number), then usually you
can get the TDW.
For example, a Samsung PM9E1 <https://semiconductor.samsung.com/ssd/pc-ssd/>,
says 600TDW for the 1TB version.
I managed to buy a used one for $120 (after being scammed by someone else).
And it had only 1.69TB written, so plenty of life left.
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