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I read that a lot, but my Samsung 970 EVO 1TB still has only 1% wearout, it's running for about 3 years now. Are only cheap drives affected with low TBW?

That's not normal. I've had a sata Samsung 970 Evo for 6 years and I've been working it to death, constantly writing data on it because I compile stuff a lot and it's still working well and a sata Patriot ssd I don't remember the exact model of that's seen lighter usage, but still works fine after 3

I have a 250 gig 2,5" samsung 850 evo that I've used as an OS drive for over 10 years at this point and it's still in good shape. I also have a 7-year-old 1tb samsung 970 evo plus that is in good shape. the larger the drives the higher they are rated for endurance, e.g the 970 plus 1tb is rated for

Return the terrible BX500 and get a reputable M.2 NVMe ssd. Look for Samsungs 970 evo plus, 980, 990 evo plus for example. Sandisk/wd offerings are great too, just dont go with greens. Either Blue or Black series from Sandisk. T580 will run all ssds at up to 1800mbps, but with a bette drive random p

Yeah, in short, these are the crème de la crème of SSDs and what every data center and AI slop shop is gunning for. These are basically considered enterprise class devices these days and price reflects it. DRAM cacheless SSDs are a lot more affordable with write penalties that may legitimately cause

Saving an average game is more damaging to an SSD than writing RAM to an SSD every now and then for most people. . He probably saved more money on electricity than if the SSD had lasted another year or two Let's take my case, where I'm hibernating 32GB of RAM from the system twice a day, all year ro

i feel you on this one - same thing happened to my samsung 970 evo after three years. that red highlight usually means the bios sees the drive but can't boot from it. first thing - grab a usb stick and make a bootable hirens bootcd pe on another pc to test the ssd health. samsung magician software c