SSD solid state drives life span

I've had my OCZ Vertex4 for about two years now. I use it a heck of a lot, and my SQL server runs on it as well, which I use daily.
It's still on 97%.

General consensus is, assuming an average number of writes, is that it will be around 4-5 years.
 
L1cache said:
For how long do solid state drives last.....
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If, theoretically, you're 30 years of age today and you buy a SSD and you don't encounter any electrical or physical damage issues and allow TRIM to do its thing and only do regular formats and around 30-40GB of writes per day...

It'll last you until you're 60.

NAND flash today is incredibly resilient. Toshiba's 19nm stuff is solid, Intel's 20nm flash is reliable and is very predictable and Samsung's 30nm 3D V-NAND is both cheaper and has a longer life. I wouldn't worry about SSD lifespans today.
 
Just for the sake of curiosity, what is the lifespan of a classical hard drive ?
 
Remember that the more RAM in your PC, the fewer writes to the SSD as well. The general consensus is that although not all SSDs are created equal in terms of speed and lifespan, most will outlive their usefulness... i.e. you'd probably be ready to replace it in 10 years time when it's ready to go.
 
The endurance to death tests yielded some amazing results weeding out the good and not so good. But overall ssd tech is pretty good. Nand technology should be viewed in conjunction with the controller.
 
koeksGHT said:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/170748-how-long-do-hard-drives-actually-live-for
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For anyone else interested, BackBlaze's data tallies up pretty well with Google's 2007 findings. I read through the whitepaper myself and came to the same conclusions the researchers did - drive failure is impossible to predict. Even these researchers from Carnegie Mellon figured out that the MTTF (Mean Time To Failure) and MBTF (Mean Time Between Failure) rates typically don't give you the exact ratio at which drives in their data center died each year.

SMART attributes give you a good educated guess about how soon a drive will fail, but as Southbit will no doubt tell you, many of the SMART warnings that you get from a drive are designed to pop up long before it properly fails and that if it fails sooner than the SMART readings suggest, then it was most likely an unavoidable physical issue.

Also, according to Google's stats, one-third of all failed drives did not report their SMART attributes properly or at all. In Tech Report's SSD endurance tests a few of the drives don't give out proper SMART reports because (Crucial for one) the manufacturers don't want people knowing the exact reliability rates of their consumer-marketed drives.

Although Tom's Hardware isn't always the bastion of accurate journalism, their SSD reliability investigation is worth a look, even if their sample siaze is way too small to draw any real conclusions from without another 90,000 drives from other manufacturers included.

Arietans said:
Remember that the more RAM in your PC, the fewer writes to the SSD as well.
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There is some truth to this, especially if you leave the page file on your drive or enabled at all, because Windows 8/8.1 uses it only when it needs to. Windows 7 is a bit more picky about use, but won't complain if its turned off. If you use Vista and a SSD, move to Windows 7/8 because you're doing it wrong. Vista is a dog to hard drives and SSDs and was never designed with them in mind.

For anyone who uses Hibernation on their laptop or desktop and has a SSD, don't worry too much about it - it's fine. You may approach the manufacturer's claimed drive life quicker, but SSDs can clearly go well beyond that rating and work properly for years.
 
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I guess I don't have to worry myself about it then.....it's all just a matter of luck
 
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