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Warranties are always presented in terms of years rather than TBW. When shopping you have to go to the manufacturers' websites and pull the data sheets for every single model. Two drives for the same price could both have 5 year warranties but have vastly different endurance ratings. It's similar to x-mile, y-year warranty system with cars but in this case you have to hunt down the x-mile piece yourself.

On top of that, newer versions can release within same product line but have much worse endurance ratings. For example, my old Corsair MP600 2TB drives from 2020 are rated for 3600 TBW. The newer MP600 Core XT and Elite models have 450 TBW and 1600 TBW respectively. My MP600 drives are currently at 1.5-2.0 PB written.




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