Is this amount of Data writen normal for a SSD?

TMCThomas · Mar 19, 2017

Hello everyone!

I recently took a look at the statistics of my Hardrives and saw that my 128GB Samsung SSD had writen a total of 7,392TB of data (7569GB) over the past (almost) 2 years. Which seemed a bit high to me. So I wrote the numbers down to compare it two weeks later. I just checked and saw that the amount of GB's written has increased with 240GB over 2 weeks time. Since I'm no SSD expert I wondering if these are normal numbers for a 128GB SSD or way to high.? I must mention that the SSD is my main drive with windows installed on it. All the bigger programs/games go to the 1TB HDD.
Best Regards, Thomas Mulder.

alucasa · Mar 19, 2017

Well, each to their own.

Really, there is no set standards, doh.

Vya Domus · Mar 19, 2017

I've got 5TB on a 1 year old drive but I have copied and deleted a lot of stuff very often , so nothing unusual as far as I am concerned. SSD's are no where as fragile as many seem to believe. So use the hell out of it and stop worrying. If it fails it will do it most likely because of other causes.

Toothless · Mar 19, 2017

My 850 EVO hit the 10TB writes recently.

PerfectWave · Mar 19, 2017

better move all temp-tmp windows folder to a traditional hard disk. you will lower your writes a lot

xorbe · Mar 19, 2017

6800 GB / 100% [1TB] after 2.4 years, so I don't think you're out of the ballpark, I don't even use the drive that much (2nd drive in system). My first drive doesn't show me any stats like that, it's older but still at 99% left [also1TB].

Toothless · Mar 19, 2017

Didn't someone do a torture test and ssds lasted into the petabytes.

TMCThomas · Mar 19, 2017

Thanks for all the responses everyone! I guess there's nothing to worry about than

alucasa · Mar 19, 2017

Toothless said:
Didn't someone do a torture test and ssds lasted into the petabytes.

Samsung SSDs lasted the longest, I believe.

Jetster · Mar 19, 2017

PerfectWave said:
better move all temp-tmp windows folder to a traditional hard disk. you will lower your writes a lot

First to the OP your math is wrong

A modern SSD can take well over 200Tb. Your traditional drive can only do about 50,000Gb so don't move any folders

RejZoR · Mar 20, 2017

I've written 9TB in 1,5 years (roughly) to my 850 Pro. I'm not babysitting the drive, I'm just using it like I have old HDD's.

Komshija · Mar 21, 2017

There's no reason to worry, mate. Average SSD will easily "outlast" 50 TB write cycles.
My Mushkin Triactor is 8 months old and has almost 3 TB total host writes and slightly under 2,5 TB total NAND writes.

alucasa · Mar 21, 2017

I'd say the Internet did a wonderful job installing paranoia onto people regarding SSD write cycles.

Easo · Mar 21, 2017

alucasa said:
I'd say the Internet did a wonderful job installing paranoia onto people regarding SSD write cycles.

Exactly. Those SSD torture tests showed numbers way beyond the official endurance specs.
And though like with HDD's some may fail sooner, they still will last longer than the PC itself.

Derek12 · Mar 21, 2017

My SSDs

Samsung 850 EVO: less than a month: 0.5 TB -
Samsung 750 EVO: roughly 2 months: 2 TB
1 year old Kingston HyperX: 6 TB host written
8 month Kingston SSDNow: 4 TB host written

All of them still at 100% life

Reaching the TBW value is rare in normal usage. Most likely you'll upgrade it before

bug · Mar 21, 2017

alucasa said:
I'd say the Internet did a wonderful job installing paranoia onto people regarding SSD write cycles.

Well, it's just a (relatively cheap) consumer appliance after all. Better safe than sorry

Disparia · Mar 21, 2017

About 1y 4m old.

Yukikaze · Mar 21, 2017

My Intel Pro 2500 480GB is at 8334GB total after around 16 months of use. This is the only drive in an enterprise managed development machine, so I'd bet this should be a bit higher than most people would be seeing in a home setting.

RejZoR · Mar 21, 2017

What really does with writes are virtual machines if you have to recover images regularly. I've used up like 2TB of writes in 1 week of testing antiviruses where you have to scrap the image for each test and sometimes you had to do it several times for one test.

bug · Mar 21, 2017

RejZoR said:
What really does with writes are virtual machines if you have to recover images regularly. I've used up like 2TB of writes in 1 week of testing antiviruses where you have to scrap the image for each test and sometimes you had to do it several times for one test.

Browsers have been found to write copious amounts of data. They simply write your tabs to disk every second or so, just to be able to restore them in case of a crash. I'm sure other things are just as happy to write stuff on your storage.

RejZoR · Mar 21, 2017

Browsers only store tab state (URL) and user inserted data. They do not store whole pages. I browse tons and it hardly even affects the writes.

newtekie1 · Mar 21, 2017

alucasa said:
Samsung SSDs lasted the longest, I believe.

If you are talking about he techreport test, the Samsung started to fail first. It started to have reallocated sectors after just 100TB written, way before any of the other drives actually.

wurschti · Mar 21, 2017

TMCThomas said:
Hello everyone!

I recently took a look at the statistics of my Hardrives and saw that my 128GB Samsung SSD had writen a total of 7,392TB of data (7569GB) over the past (almost) 2 years. Which seemed a bit high to me. So I wrote the numbers down to compare it two weeks later. I just checked and saw that the amount of GB's written has increased with 240GB over 2 weeks time. Since I'm no SSD expert I wondering if these are normal numbers for a 128GB SSD or way to high.? I must mention that the SSD is my main drive with windows installed on it. All the bigger programs/games go to the 1TB HDD.
Best Regards, Thomas Mulder.

https://www.golem.de/news/ssd-langz...naten-tod-durch-2-4-petabyte-1503-112950.html

this was an extreme test conducted from some german reviewers. After 2.4 Petabytes of data written on the SSD it died. No worried. The worst SSDs will go at least 300TB, which is like 40 times what you have.

bug · Mar 21, 2017

RejZoR said:
Browsers only store tab state (URL) and user inserted data. They do not store whole pages. I browse tons and it hardly even affects the writes.

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

wurschti · Mar 21, 2017

bug said:
https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

This is pretty old news. It should be OK now. btw, Spotify had some kind of issue too. I don't know why. Over 10GBs just for a couple of songs

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