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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by rsync on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:08PM (#29086741)
"Any modern SSD should be good for a few hundred to several hundred TB and may reach a PB."

Actually, even more than that - here are some examples:[1]

Intel SSDSC2KB019TZ01 ("S4520") with 8.8 PB of lifetime writes

Intel SSDSC2KB019T801 ("S4510") with 7.1 PB of lifetime writes

Seagate ZA1920NM10001 ("Ironwolf[2] 110") with 3.5 PB of lifetime writes [2]

Samsung MZ-76P2T0BW ("860 PRO") with 2.4 PB of lifetime writes

[1] https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2021-q3-rsync.net_tech...

[2] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1402397708329967618

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by wtallis on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:27PM (#29088938)
To be fair, those are unusually high-end products compared to typical consumer SSDs, and three out of four are enterprise drives where endurance is measured according to different criteria that inflates the number a bit further.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by GhettoComputers on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:36PM (#29089028)
Those numbers aren't out of reach for consumer SSDs either.
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