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Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal by Jabbles on Sunday February 15, 2015 @02:48PM (#9053791)
There are several sites doing SSD stress tests. This one claims to have written 2 Petabytes to a drive without failing:

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experim...

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Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal by awfag4y44444 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:34PM (#9054917)
Not all written bytes are equally expensive to the flash. Single-stream sequential writes are going to give you a lot longer lifetime than tons of random small IO with zero TRIM.
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Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal by rasz_pl on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:27PM (#9054894)
2 petabates while validating write RIGHT AFTER it happens, and never powering that drive down. Its great when all you need is a dev/null, not so much if you need to power down from time to time and retrieve useful data later.
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Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal by kalleboo on Sunday February 15, 2015 @10:35PM (#9055199)
They did do a 5 day unpowered retention test http://techreport.com/review/25681/the-ssd-endurance-experim...
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Re:1-2 year SSD wear on build boxes has been minimal by awfag4y44444 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:35PM (#9054920)
I believe they have powered them down. It's not solely a drive write cache test.
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