Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThought Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThought?atomcommentsDWiki2020-10-04T06:00:42ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThought.By Randall on /blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThoughttag:CSpace:blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThought:152ed2f830c5e6c22560abd7929368716ee69684Randall<div class="wikitext"><p>You can still get SLC drives mostly for long-life use like you mention. Lot pricier per GB, but a lot cheaper per write cycle if that's what you're looking at.</p>
</div>2020-10-04T06:00:42ZBy WonderThingBlue on /blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThoughttag:CSpace:blog/tech/HDAndSSDLifetimeThought:4afae701cc67bcb397592bfeb66ea107bdac277aWonderThingBlue<div class="wikitext"><p>But is the SMART value you monitor the amount of data written to the drive or an actual wear-levelling indicator? One would be whatever the manufacturer guarantees the drive is capable of, the other is a better (but not always good) estimate of the actual remaining lifetime.</p>
<p>In a long-term test in a german computer magazine of SSDs of various brands in 2017, even the worst one managed 2.5 times its specced TBW and the best one only started reporting read/write errors after more than 8000TBW even though it was only specified for 150.</p>
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