Samsung 850 pro shows great resistance to withstanding 9100 tb writings

One of the biggest concerns of SSD disk users is the amount of data they write to them, remember that these disks are based on NAND memory chips that support a limited number of write cycles. However, SSDs are much more resistant than most users think and we have good proof of this from the magazine c't that has managed to write no less than 9100 TB of data in a Samsung 850 Pro.

Samsung 850 Pro shows formidable endurance

c't has done an endurance test of SSDs using two units of each of the OCZ TR150, Crucial BX 200, Samsung 750 Evo, Samsung 850 Pro, SanDisk Extreme Pro and SanDisk Ultra II models. The one that has taken the longest to fall has been the Samsung 850 Pro with a capacity of 256 GB that has supported a write of an impressive 9100 TB, which is equivalent to 9.1 petabyte. A very difficult figure to reach for a user with normal use, which shows that the durability of SSDs is far superior to what is thought.

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The first to fall has been the Crucial BX 200 with a total of 187 TB written, a figure that is still well above the 80 TBW that the manufacturer promises. The second model to drop has been the second Crucial BX 200 that has supported a total of 280 TB written. The rest of the models apparently died from a voltage spike with unknown cause. The only one that was saved was the SanDisk Extreme Pro which has held 2, 200 TB of written data, the same amount as the other Samsung 850 Pro model.

A small study that does not include a sample large enough to be considered statistically significant, but it does show us that the life of SSDs is much higher than previously thought.

Source: techpowerup