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Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by acqq on Thursday March 12, 2015 @06:05PM (#9194273)
The drive has 400 MB/s on the interface. That means that it's possible to deliver 34 TB per day to the disk and the rated 300 TB are achieved in less than 9 days. But the scariest effect is the "write multiplication:" the possibility to deliver the small chunks of the data through the 400 MB/s interface which can result in much more data actually overwritten on the flash (as the atomic size of the writes on the flash is quite big).

Of course an average consumer can't produce that. A lot of the data I write to any medium at home is never overwritten. But not every use is the use of an average consumer, knowing the actual limits is important.

Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by sfilipov on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:18PM (#9194663)
That's why enterprise SSDs are rated at number of full writes per day rather than GB per day. If you are going to write at 400 MB/s for 24 hours a day then you need an enterprise SSD and not a consumer one.
Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by acqq on Thursday March 12, 2015 @07:59PM (#9194855)
So Samsung 850 PRO is not an enterprise SSD?
Re:Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months by wmf on Thursday March 12, 2015 @08:37PM (#9195012)
No, it's not: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisit...

(Also, drive writes per day and GB per day are the same metric.)