How long do SSDs last on average?

[Haruspex]

My Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB NVME drive died recently. It was the main boot drive in my desktop. I've had it for years, and it just got unstable to the point where things wouldn't even boot reliably anymore. The thermal pad on the heatspreader was discolored and brown like it had cooked. I just replaced it with a newer 2 TB Crucial drive with heatsink, and things are back up and running smoothly.

But I got to thinking, what kind of lifespan are we really looking at in these drives? I have old mechanical IDE drives from the 90s that still spin and read fine, but these newer SSDs I'm just not sure about. I suppose it's fine as long as I keep good backups. Anyone have any experience with this? I think these solid state drives just haven't been around long enough to know for sure.

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Omega eredeti hozzászólása:

Your SSD was defective. The average SSD will outlive the average HDD by at least a decade.

Isn't that the Samsung drive that was aging unusually fast?

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KyokoKirigiri eredeti hozzászólása:

stack of hdds from 2009 that never die they became obsolete before they died. hdd better

I have an 8 year old Toshiba 5TB HDD in my PC that's still going strong. SSDs get replaced due to obsolescence in my PC with 85-90% of their life still available.

[Rod]

Crucial m4 256gb still in my main rig lol. It was one of the first ssd and cost 334 bucks. I can not decide if i should replace it with a 990 pro or Aorus 10000 gen5.

[MancSoulja]

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Omega eredeti hozzászólása:

Your SSD was defective. The average SSD will outlive the average HDD by at least a decade.

Isn't that the Samsung drive that was aging unusually fast?

That was the 980/990.

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MancSoulja eredeti hozzászólása:

Crashed eredeti hozzászólása:

Isn't that the Samsung drive that was aging unusually fast?

That was the 980/990.

I pretty much passed off Samsung for my latest upgrade and went with the WD_BLACK 4TB, though I am just a bit concerned it has a bit less TBW rating than my 2TB Sabrent.

[Omega]

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MancSoulja eredeti hozzászólása:

That was the 980/990.

I pretty much passed off Samsung for my latest upgrade and went with the WD_BLACK 4TB, though I am just a bit concerned it has a bit less TBW rating than my 2TB Sabrent.

Even after 5+ years of heavy desktop usage you will still not get anywhere close to the max TBW.

Reinstalling Windows and your games 1x per year is not heavy usage.

[Illusion of Progress]

Rod eredeti hozzászólása:

Crucial m4 256gb still in my main rig lol. It was one of the first ssd and cost 334 bucks. I can not decide if i should replace it with a 990 pro or Aorus 10000 gen5.

A wonderful drive, one of the early era greats. I still have mine; I paid $189 or so at Micro Center for it in late 2012.

Last I checked, Crystal Disk Info showed it as down to around 50% life left but I used it probably rather heavily until a few years ago when I replaced it with a 1 TB SATA SSD (which itself was replaced a couple months ago). It's the system/OS drive in my HTPC now and still works fine.

[Rod]

Illusion of Progress eredeti hozzászólása:

Rod eredeti hozzászólása:

Crucial m4 256gb still in my main rig lol. It was one of the first ssd and cost 334 bucks. I can not decide if i should replace it with a 990 pro or Aorus 10000 gen5.

A wonderful drive, one of the early era greats. I still have mine; I paid $189 or so at Micro Center for it in late 2012.

Last I checked, Crystal Disk Info showed it as down to around 50% life left but I used it probably rather heavily until a few years ago when I replaced it with a 1 TB SATA SSD (which itself was replaced a couple months ago). It's the system/OS drive in my HTPC now and still works fine.

I would put it as my second greatest upgrade the AW3423DW is just more impactful but wow yea legendary drive still going strong after 10yrs. I should of replaced it but Coronavirus and prices put me off a new build which im starting.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I also have HDDs I use almost daily and they are between 4-12 years old. Not showing any faults or having any issues with them. Not even bad sectors yet. 2 of them are Samsung SpinPoint 1TB 7200rpm. One is WD Green 2TB, the rest are all mostly WD Black 2TB and larger. I still have a couple WD VelociRaptor as well, not that I really use the Raptors much due to their small size (150 and 300GB)

[GMC79]

I have a Seagate 600 series 480GB sata SSD bought in 2014 still fine, was used as a boot drive since then and was fine for the entire 8 1/2 years i used it with same windows install the whole time (well after 7 to 10 upgrade in 2015). Rebuild in december so is still in old pc.

[Blueberry {JESUS IS LORD}]

hdd from 2001 still works
think my hdd from 1997 would still work if still had it

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Harusp3x eredeti hozzászólása:

Bad 💀 Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

3 case fans... that's it???

It's plenty, really. I'm not overclocking or anything, and the Fractal North is like, 60% mesh.

I had an all mesh case. So hard to keep the dust from clogging the mesh up.

[Viking2121]

I have a old 80GB OCZ SSD thats actually slower in reads and writes than most HDD's, but of course access times are much faster, its still going in my make shift server, I did have Linux on it, moved to TrueNAS and currently playing with Windows server on it, so its constantly being formatted and testing out other Operating systems so its not like Im easy on it.

I have other no name brand SSD's and cheap PNY SSD's I've never had one fail myself, but they should out live a HDD for the most part, A lot of times Crystal Disk Info will give you a percentage of life on some SSD's but its more of estimated value that I wouldn't even trust, its not uncommon to see SSD's out live their expected write cycles, same with HDD's, some will and can live much longer than expected, some don't.

[CJM]

MancSoulja eredeti hozzászólása:

Crashed eredeti hozzászólása:

Isn't that the Samsung drive that was aging unusually fast?

That was the 980/990.

It was a firmware issue.

The drive wasn't aging unusually fast, the firmware was reporting that the drive was aging unusually fast. Updating the firmware should solve the problem.

Unfortunately, the firmware update does not reverse the "aging". Either tracking of wear leveling on solid state media is an "educated guess" and not based on detection methodology, or the firmware was actually causing an unbelievable amount of wear on the drives.

[plat]

Right, the 990 Pro at its debut was showing for example 90% Health just a month or so after initial installation. Applying the firmware "fix" does not restore the Health to 100%. It prevents the further abnormal deterioration of the Health value. So your new baseline would be: 90% Health.

Not good, not good Samsung.