Most heavy data users can't wait for the day when hard disks, with their fragile, spinny parts, are put out to pasture for good. But just how much better are SSDs? Despite any horror stories you may have heard, the answer is a lot, according to tests on recent models by The Tech Repor t . They made six models -- including Kingston's HyperX 3K, Samsung's 840 Pro and Intel's 335 series -- continuously write and rewrite 10GB of small and large files. Four drives bit the dust prior to hitting the petabyte mark (though still far, far past their specified limits), often after their SMART systems moved thousands of bytes from failing flash sectors.
However, two drives -- the Samsung and Kingston models -- have both written two petabytes worth of data to date and are still going. Given that a typical user might write a couple of terabytes of data a year on an SSD at most, that adds up to a thousand or so years based just on usage (the actual parts would disintegrate long before that, of course). Still, that shows that after just a short time on the market, SSDs are far less worrying than their mechanical counterparts -- and may even expire long after you do.
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