The SSD Endurance Experiment: They’re all dead

The SSD Endurance Experiment represents the longest test TR has ever conducted. It’s been a lot of work, but the results have also been gratifying. Over the past 18 months, we’ve watched modern SSDs easily write far more data than most consumers will ever need. Errors didn’t strike the Samsung 840 Series until after 300TB of writes, and it took over 700TB to induce the first failures. The fact that the 840 Pro exceeded 2.4PB is nothing short of amazing, even if that achievement is also kind of academic.

via The SSD Endurance Experiment: They’re all dead – The Tech Report – Page 4.

If you write a lot of data, keep an eye out for warning messages, because SSDs don’t always fail gracefully.