Every year seems like a very short lifespan, but I guess every usecase is different. I definitely replace drive when SMART is starting to look bleak, but that is far more infrequent in my usecase I guess.
Yes but I forgot to mention I do a lot of heavy writes to it. It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it, before creating a new one in its place. I'm a huge virtualization freak.
> It is common to see me creating a huge 20GB virtual machine disk image, using it for a few hours, then deleting it
The SSD in my current desktop, a Samsung 960 Pro 1TB, has a warranty for 800 TBW or 5 years. So that's 800/5/365.25*1000 ~= 438 GB per day, every single day.
And it's been documented the Samsung drives can do a lot more than the warranty is good for.
Either you're doing something else weird, or you're not really wearing them out.
> does not necessarily mean you're actually writing out 20GB to the disk.
You mean like preallocation? I think Virtualbox now does that. In the past it didn't though, it just kept writing a bunch of zeroes to the drive until it reached 20GB.
